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Giga meet Lenny

Today I downgraded from Debian Sid to Lenny.

Lenny

For the last year, I’ve been running Sid, it’s been a lot of fun but with the server acting up, I figured I’d go back to a more stable Debian branch.

Lenny will be the next stable version of Debian, dubbed 5.0, due in stores after the holiday rush.

Following my steps, from when I last downgraded, Giga meet Etch:

Changed my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org lenny/updates main contrib non-free

Did some apt pinning in /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001

Then issued the commands:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

14 upgraded, 4 new, 245 downgraded and 1 to remove.

I had a problem with djvulibre-desktop, it was causing the upgrade to crash, so I ended up having to remove libdjvulibre-text with dpkg -r.

Issued an apt-get -f install and the upgraded process picked up where it left off and finished soon after. Did another apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade just to be perfectly sure.

Rebooted into Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.

We’ve got to hug and rub-a-dub
We’ve got to dance and be in love
But what I really wanna know is
Are you gonna go my way?