Laptop upgraded to Debian Lenny
I couldn’t wait for the official Debian Lenny release because there were several packages from Lenny that I wanted right now:
- Kernel 2.8.26 that includes support for my Broadcom wireless card.
- KVM, so I could use it instead of VirtualBox.
- Pidgin, instead of Gaim
- OpenJDK, so I could replace the sun-java5-jdk that I have been using
- Improved NetworkManager capabilities
- Iceweasel (Firefox) 3.0.3
- Native Adobe Flash Player (swfdec-gnome)
- The brand new Adoble Flash Player 64 bits
So, I updated my laptop this way:
1. With the current setup, update the system
# aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
2. After having an Etch distro fully updated, I changed all the references to etch or stable in /etc/apt/sources.list to lenny. My sources.list is now:
# Debian lenny
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
3. I did the dist-upgrade to lenny
# aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
This downloaded 1.5GB of packages from debian repositories and after a couple of hours the upgrade was over. Now I am writing this from my shinny new Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny). BTW, the new look & feel it is pretty cool.