Sometimes you wanted something newer from Debian, because their stable release are often left with some outdated programs, libraries, etc. While installing other OS is a good choice, you have another choice. Upgrade it.
Speaking of unstable release of Debian, it's not really unstable. It just doomed to be unstable and it never reaches stable since Debian Sid (unstable) is used for extensive new packages testing for developer.
But if you're an ordinary user, who just wanted to hit the road with newest OS on your device, then skip down those notes. Let's get upgrading !
1.) Prepare these things :
- A good internet connection with a stable and fast speed. You're not downloading a kid game, you're downloading a full OS here.
- Backup of your carefully crafted system on your device. While having a backup can eat more space, it's a good choice to have it if your upgrade fails
- A minimal 1 GB storage space on your main HDD partition, used to store temporary downloaded archives
- Modify your sources.list to include Sid repos. Open the sources.list in root mode.
- Find following similiar lines on your sources.list :
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main - Modify the first line to be like this :
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
- Then replace the second line to :
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main
- Save your changes
- Open terminal emulator, run it as root. Do following commands :
apt-get update
- Then finally do the upgrade :
apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
- Reboot ! It has 75% chance will work. Just let it reboot.
- Play and tweak it a little (if it boots) then reboot back
- Enjoy the new Debian !
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