Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian
- From: Hal Vaughan <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:37:12 -0400
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Michael Pobega wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:19:06AM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to
switch it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that
someone could point me to?
(Though I will say that little hack where the shell tells you which
package a program is in looks pretty cute and helpful :)
Thanks,
Britton
Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, upgrading from Ubuntu to
Debian (And vice-versa) is nearly impossible and unsupported by the
Debian community (If you did try it, we probably wouldn't be able to
help you). Too many things are done differently between the two
operating systems, for example, while Debian uses root to do many
tasks by default Ubuntu has no true root user and instead uses sudo.
While it's just a small, niggling detail and may be just semantics,
there is a true root account on Ubuntu that can be used the same as a
root account on any Debian release. The only difference is it doesn't
have a password on setup. I used:
sudo passwd
(or maybe it was sudo passwd root)
and created a password for root and can use my root account on my Ubuntu
workstation just like I do the root account on any of my Debian
servers.
Hal
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