upgradable linux distro?
With Ubuntu you can upgrade your distro online when a newer version comes out, such as 8.04 to 8.10, without having to reinstall. Are there any other distros that can do this? For example, I installed OpenSUSE 11.0 and attempted to upgrade to 11.1 using that package manager but it just hosed my entire system, and then I read that you would have to reinstall the OS to upgrade.
Edit: it would be nice to be able to downgrade also. |
With Debian you can upgrade from the cli.
Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to the new version. Then aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade. Once upgraded it is not possible to downgrade to a previous version. Regards The trooper. |
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sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Just edit your /etc/apt/source.list and put the new version in there. If it used to be fiesty, change it to hoary, or whatever the Ubuntu distro's are called. I'm a Debian guy so I don't follow the naming of Ubuntu, sorry. You should find the upgrade instructions on www.ubuntu.com though. |
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zypper dist-upgrade -l |
Also you can do it with Archlinux, Sourcemage & Gentoo. I think Slackware can do too, but sometimes breakage may occur with version upgrades.
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Thanks for the informative replies guys. I've now tried Gentoo, Madriva, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, Debian, & OpenSUSE.
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Or, you can always go with my personal favorite:
wget http://ftp.slackware.com/slackware-current; upgradekg --install-new ./*/*.tgz |
Sidux via the smxi tool updates/upgrades flawlessly.
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Gentoo can do this blindly.
In fact it's not only that it can, but that there's no other way to upgrade. Gentoo has no versions. All that a new version brings is an updated livecd that you can use to install Gentoo. But once you install, emerge --sync and emerge -auDvN world you get the latest. |
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