quietearth [General News 09.26.06]



I built a new server over the weekend and installed the latest dapper server image. Before I got anything setup I figured I would upgrade to edgy as I don't plan to use this for much more then backups, converting video, and as an nfs server. It was pretty easy. First off just change all occurences of dapper in /etc/apt/sources.list to edgy:
# cd /etc/apt
# cp sources.list sources.list.dapper
# sed 's/dapper/edgy/g' sources.list > ed
# mv ed sources.list

Then update apt and update the entire box.
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade


The update went pretty smoothly and it looks good, but then again this isn't a desktop, so I probably won't be seeing any problems.. It's been up for over a day now and still looking good.

muttkid (5 years ago) Reply

Hey nice page and nice note about upgrading, the very useful command on your technique is the "sed 's/dapper/edgy/g" which I didn't saw on other notes about upgrading, they all said "then you replace all the dapper's with edgy's", nice job XD

Fusiondog (5 years ago) Reply

If you use the -i for in place option on sed you don't need the redirect or the mv, like so:
sed -i 's/dapper/edgy/g' sources.list

Fusiondog (5 years ago) Reply

Also in bash cp sources.list{,.dapper} is the same as cp sources.list sources.list.dapper

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