Blog by Andreas Glaser

On the 14th February 2009 was Debian 5 (Codename Lenny) released.
To update from Debian 4.x to Debian 5.x follow the following steps:

Step 1
Edit the sources.list

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Step 2
Replace “etch” with “lenny”

:%s/etch/lenny/g

Step 3
Save the new sources.list

:wq

Step 4
Update your sources index

apt-get update

Step 5
Repeat the following command until nothing more is upgraded.

apt-get upgrade

Step 6
Repeat the following command until nothing more is upgraded.

apt-get dist-upgrade

Your Debian system should now be up to date!

So long,
JaZz