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This appendix contains information on how to make sure you can install or upgrade sarge packages before you upgrade to etch. This should only be necessary in specific situations.
Basically this is no different than any other upgrade of sarge you've been doing. The only difference is that you first need to make sure your package list still contains sarge packages as explained in Checking your sources list, Section A.2.
If you upgrade your system using a Debian mirror, it will automatically be upgraded to the latest sarge point release.
If any of the lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list refer to
'stable', you are effectively already "using" etch. If you have
already run apt-get update, you can still get back without
problems following the procedure below.
If you have also already installed packages from etch, there probably is not much point in installing packages from sarge anymore. In that case you will have to decide for yourself whether you want to continue or not. It is possible to downgrade packages, but that is not covered here.
Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite editor (as
root) and check all lines beginning with deb http: or deb
ftp: for a reference to "stable". If you find
any, change stable to sarge.
If you have any lines starting with deb file:, you will have to check for yourself if the location they refer to contains a sarge or an etch archive.
Important! Do not change any lines that begin with deb
cdrom:. Doing so would invalidate the line and you would have to run
apt-cdrom again. Do not be alarmed if a 'cdrom' source line
refers to "unstable". Although confusing, this is
normal.
If you've made any changes, save the file and execute
# apt-get update
to refresh the package list.
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Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 ("etch"), Alpha
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