To upgrade a Debian Lenny (version 5) system to Squeeze (version 6), you will need to follow a specific process that involves changing the package repositories and updating the system.
Follow these steps to upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze:
Make a backup of your important data and configuration files.
Open a terminal and log in as the root
user or use sudo
to execute the commands.
Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list
file and replace all occurrences of lenny
with squeeze
.
Run the following command to update the package index:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
This will upgrade the system to Squeeze, but it may leave some packages at their Lenny versions if newer versions are not available in Squeeze.
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove
This will remove any packages that were installed as dependencies and are no longer needed.