Upgrade from Devuan Jessie to ASCII

This document shows how to upgrade from Devuan Jessie to Devuan ASCII. It assumes a working Devuan Jessie system is already installed and should not be used for migrations.

First edit the sources.list file so that the branch can be changed to ASCII.

root@devuan:~# editor /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the latest Devuan mirror and the ASCII branch as shown. Comment out any other lines.

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-backports main

Upgrade the Devuan keyring to make sure you have the latest version.

root@devuan:~# apt-get upgrade devuan-keyring

Update the package index files.

root@devuan:~# apt-get update

The only thing left to do is upgrade the system.

root@devuan:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

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