unable to upgrade squeeze to wheezy
 

I try to upgrade the disto currently running in my box:

Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (squeeze)
Release: 6.0
Codename: squeeze

My sources.list looks like following:

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main

After 2 commands:

aptitude update
aptitude upgrade

I have the same old good squeeze.
Help, please

yours`
sehrguey

You have specified the volatile and security servers in your sources.list, but there is no entry for the main repository servers. This way your system can't upgrade.

More in depth to what TobiSDG wanted to say:

You only specified the "security fixes repository" and you must specify the entire Wheezy repository, such as:

If you live in the US:

However, you do know that Wheezy is the old-Stable, right? So after you upgrade to Wheezy you could consider upgrading to Jessie, the current Stable. I'm not sure you can upgrade from Squeeze to Jessie.

thank you for your swift and clear responses,

I followed your directions, aptitude did its job (update && upgrade), I rebooted and was presented with black-and-white console to login - no graphical interface.
So now I have only a terminal and 'lsb_release -a' reports I am still on Squeeze.
:(
yours`
sehrguey

Did you upgrade via graphical environment?

no, dear Amarildo
I did it through terminal commands and tried to do it again from the present console.
Then APT reported there were over one hundred conflicts in dependencies, made me several times to type "I am aware that this is a very bad idea" (when I insisted to proceed anyway) and the result was a predictable screwed up mess.
So I give up on fixing the issue and will do a fresh installation (got too much work and unfulfilled obligations amassed in the last couple of days you know).
Thank you for your kind participation.

yours`
sehrguey

That's because you used `aptitude` -- it's gets confused by all the dependency resolution options.

The official advice is to use:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=411280

EDIT: @joe 2000 is completely correct -- Stable now means jessie, that sources.list will break your system (see my signature).

This entry is dangerous:
Better use


I.e. specify the actual release rather than stable. Otherwise you might inadvertedly upgrade when really you only wanted to update the system. In fact this might very well be the reason why your uprade failed... you went straight from Squeeze to Jessie, because Jessie is the current stable.

Oh yes, sorry. I don't know how I didn't pick up on that.

OP, Joe is right, it's way better to use the release name rather than it's release name. However, Wheezy isn't the Stable branch anymore, it's OldStable. The current Stable release is Jessie.

dear all,

thank you really, your advises made me wiser (for a time being) and now I have
wow!

yours`
sehrguey