On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 06:19:09AM +0200, Thabo Mokhutsoane wrote:
Hi,
I have debian 8 installed, and I want to know if you have upgrade services
.
To get a rough idea, here [0] is a description on how to upgrade to
Bookworm.
But... STOP FIRST. You say you have Debian 8, which is Jessie. This is
a very old release (see here [1]). Jumping releases is not supported in
the upgrade process, so you would have to proceed step by step:
Jessie -> Stretch (aka 9)
Stretch -> Buster (aka 10)
Buster -> Bullseye (aka 11)
Bullseye -> Bookworm (aka 12), the current stable.
The basic process for each step, as described in [0] is:
- first bring your current release up to its newest state
- then change the source lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
- do the upgrade
then repeat. For the older releases (Jessie, Stretch, I'm not quite sure
about Buster), you will have to adapt your sources.list lines to point to archives.debian.org [3] instead of your usual source.
This is a very high level description, you'll want to come back here for
more details.
It's a bit of work, and you have to proceed carefully but perfectiy doable (I've done the Jessie...Bullseye transition remotely on a colocated host).
Plan some time for it.
Cheers
[0]
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade
[1]
https://www.debian.org/releases/
[3]
https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive
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tomás
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