Debian – upgrade to Squeeze

After release of Debian 6.0 (squeeze) the question of how to upgrade from previous version to the latest.

It appears to be fairly simple process:

1. Edit sources.list

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Replace distribution name (I appeared to have Lenny) with Squeeze.

%s/lenny/squeeze/g

Note: DebianVolatile has been superseded by squeeze-updates since Debian Squeeze.

To use squeeze-updates just add

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib

to sources.list

Then as usual:

apt-get update

apt-get dist-upgrade

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