{"id":85,"date":"2018-04-19T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2021-08-14T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:36:52","slug":"installing-debian-sid-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Installing Debian sid (unstable)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are no installation images for sid, but we can choose either stable or a daily built (testing). If you are absolutely certain that you will have connection to the internet while installing, i.e. in VirtualBox, with a cable or with the correct firmware available for wifi, you should use the netinstall image, otherwise a cd image that will give you the base system that will allow you to work and get online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We may need jigdo to download our image, so read the <a href=\"http:\/\/atterer.org\/jigdo\/debian-jigdo-mini-howto\">Debian mini how-to<\/a> if you are not familiar with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When installation is complete (including the choice to have a GUI or not), I first add emacs, mc and sudo with apt and add my user to the sudo group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I open \/etc\/apt\/sources.list (usually with nano), and change any instances of stable, testing or distribution name into sid, add contrib and non-free and comment out security lines (which don&#8217;t work for unstable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This leaves us with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">deb http:\/\/deb.debian.org\/debian\/ unstable main contrib non-free\ndeb-src http:\/\/deb.debian.org\/debian\/ unstable main contrib non-free<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we run sudo apt update and sudo apt dist-upgrade and we have a running Debian sid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no installation images for sid, but we can choose either stable or a daily built (testing). If you are absolutely certain that you will have connection to the internet while installing, i.e. in VirtualBox, with a cable or with the correct firmware available for wifi, you should use the netinstall image, otherwise a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,15,24,30,32],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd","tag-apt","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-sid","tag-unstable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansbaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}