can someone tell me what repos to change to get debian unstable from etch?

[syxbit]

i've tried searching everywhere, and from what i understand, there are no downloads for either unstable or testing.
i'd like a permanently unstable OS, as that way, it'll just keep getting upgraded forever.
it annoys me that when a new program comes out (like thunderbird 2.0) you have to wait till the next ubuntu to get it (obviously, i can often either compile, or find a .deb of it, and i don't mind doing this for a few progs, i don't want to have to do it all the time)

so, i have etch on my system, can somene tell me the REPO's i need to get unstable?
thanks a lot

[plb]

just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change etch to unstable...it should look something like this in the end:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

after that just apt-get dist-upgrade

[syxbit]

i only need those 2 things in myy sources.list for everything to upgrade?

[Bachstelze]

How is your sources.list like, currently ?

[syxbit]

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main


it started with stable, so i just renamed to unstable

should i delete it all, and put in the repos plb mentioned?

[Pobega]

Just putting "unstable" in place of Etch should be enough. If you're going to use Sid though, I advise you to install apt-listbugs.

[syxbit]

i do want the newest stuff
i'd heard that unstable wasn't too buggy
testing is safer i hear.
i'm guessing i'd just replace stable/unstable with "testing"

[tturrisi]

You are better off backing up your data & reinstalling using the net-install iso, which will give you the option to install stable, testing or unstable. Else you may end up with broken packages and other issues doing a dist-upgrade. Besides, you'd have a cleaner system that uses less disk space.

[Pobega]

You are better off backing up your data & reinstalling using the net-install iso, which will give you the option to install stable, testing or unstable. Else you may end up with broken packages and other issues doing a dist-upgrade. Besides, you'd have a cleaner system that uses less disk space.

Upgrading a Debian system isn't as risky as updating Ubuntu, since the packages are closer in timespan to each other.

I'd advise you to dist-upgrade into testing first though, and then into unstable. The transition should be much easier that way.

[juxtaposed]

I'd advise you to dist-upgrade into testing first though, and then into unstable. The transition should be much easier that way.

I just dist-upgraded from etch to sid an hour or so ago and it worked fine.

[FuturePilot]

How do you get testing? I don't want to go all the way to sid.

[Pobega]

How do you get testing? I don't want to go all the way to sid.

Just use testing in your sources.list instead of stable, and run (As root or through sudo) apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.

[syxbit]

i just installed fron the net install version, but was never given the option to choose either sid or lenny
unless i missed something?

[plb]

Don't worry about it, just do as I said earlier in the post...trust me..I've been using Debian for a couple of years now and have always done it that way...no need to install sid via cd. Upgrading will work like a charm.

[deanlinkous]

testing builds are here
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/