#21 2019-07-22 04:51:25

doxanthropos

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Re: dist-upgrade helium to buster (semi-official)

Nice thread.
I did not really follow this procedure, as I did not read it before trying an upgrade.
Because I was doing a new install anyway I thought I'd try the most simple upgrade procedure I can think of and so far the OS works with that:

- Installed the latest Helium (5) and said no in the welcome script to every option that would add new repos.
- Upgraded all packages with "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade".
- Changed every instance of "stretch" to "buster" in /etc/apt/sources.list
- Did another "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade", which took quite long for obvious reasons.
- Rebooted.

After that everything already worked like it should. 
At the moment I am still hesitant to call it a success, because I have not changed Helium to Lithium and am still wondering if that will be an instance of breaking Debian some day in the future.

For now it works fine and has the familiar Helium look:

manuel-909

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Registered: 2017-10-09

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Re: dist-upgrade helium to buster (semi-official)

doxanthropos that work for me upgrade the system , and my usb stick of curse usb didn't upgrade the kernel.