Upgrading Debian GNU/Linux from Sarge to Etch

First, of course, there are the release notes. See http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/ and its bug reports http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes .

This page is not intended to repeat the release notes, but provides additional notes about goodies that are new in etch but not automatically installed on an upgrade. Nathanael Nerode started a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00167.html discussion] about stuff done by the Etch installer which might be of interest to users upgrading from sarge.

(Note: the NewInEtch page might also be interesting)

[http://www.debianadmin.com/upgrade-sarge-to-etch.html Debian Sarge to Etch Upgrade Tutorial]

(Note: The tutorial suggests putting "deb http://mirror.whereyouare.com/debian/ testing main" in /etc/apt/sources.list. This means that when etch becomes stable, you have to change your sources.list unless you want to upgrade. It might be better to use "deb http://mirror.whereyouare.com/debian/ etch main".)