Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Lisi Reisz: > On Thursday 28 July 2016 15:43:43 Jochen Spieker wrote: >> (Please don't top-post. Trim the quotes and reply below the quote you >> are referring to. Thanks.) > > Jochem - Steve is blind. Many (Most? All??)blind people find bottom posting > and trimming very difficult. Thanks

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 July 2016 15:43:43 Jochen Spieker wrote: > (Please don't top-post. Trim the quotes and reply below the quote you > are referring to. Thanks.) Jochem - Steve is blind. Many (Most? All??)blind people find bottom posting and trimming very difficult. He is already putting paragraph

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
(Please don't top-post. Trim the quotes and reply below the quote you are referring to. Thanks.) Steve Matzura: > I am running 8.0; 8.5 is out. Came out on June 24. You are right. I missed that the point release was labelled 8.5. As Lisi said: you do not need to do anything special to upgrade

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 July 2016 14:36:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > I am running 8.0; 8.5 is out. Came out on June 24. Are you saying I > should wait for 9 to become stable release and then upgrade to that > version? I thought by going to 8.5 would be a good idea. Maybe not? You should upgrade regularly to

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 09:36:55 (-0400), Steve Matzura wrote: > That article talks about upgrading from 7 (Weezy) to 8 (Jessie). I am > already on 8--8.0 specifically. I was thinking of updating, maybe > upgrade is the wrong term, to 8.5. Read my other post, but I should have included this

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 05:21:59 (-0400), Steve Matzura wrote: > Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include > the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade' > followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'? There are some great answers accumulating in this thread,

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Matzura
That article talks about upgrading from 7 (Weezy) to 8 (Jessie). I am already on 8--8.0 specifically. I was thinking of updating, maybe upgrade is the wrong term, to 8.5. On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:38:12 +0300, you wrote: >Steve Matzura [2016-07-28 05:21:59-04] wrote: > >> Should I follow the

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Matzura
I am running 8.0; 8.5 is out. Came out on June 24. Are you saying I should wait for 9 to become stable release and then upgrade to that version? I thought by going to 8.5 would be a good idea. Maybe not? On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:34:01 +0200, you wrote: >Steve Matzura: >> >> Should I follow the

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread limpia
On 2016-07-28 04:21, Steve Matzura wrote: Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade' followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'? When I make any changes in the sources.list file, I have found that the changes

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Teemu Likonen
Steve Matzura [2016-07-28 05:21:59-04] wrote: > Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include > the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade' > followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'? I think it's useful to follow the "standard procedure", that is the

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Steve Matzura: > > Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include > the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade' > followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'? What do you mean with "8.5"? Debian jessie is version 8, Debian stretch ussupposed to be version 9, I

OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Matzura
Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade' followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'?