Debian Wheezy (stable) to Jessie (testing)

debian-jessie.md

Migrate Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 8 (Jessie)

# apt-get install sudo
# List jessie* http://mirror.yandex.ru/debian/dists/
sudo sed -i 's/wheezy/jessie/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade # first only upgrade (safe)
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install firmware-realtek

Debian 8 MariaDB

# MariaDB 10 stable
deb http://labs.seravo.fi/~otto/mariadb-repo/ sid-amd64/
# MariaDB 10 fast update
deb http://labs.seravo.fi/~otto/mariadb-repo/ mariadb-10.0-sid-amd64/

Safely Remove / Delete Old Linux Kernel from a Linux Server

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot
dpkg --list | grep linux-image | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -V | sed -n '/'`uname -r`'/q;p' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie main
deb-src http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie main

#deb http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie/updates main
#deb-src http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie/updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie-updates main
deb-src http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie-updates main

#deb http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie-proposed-updates main
#deb-src http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ jessie-proposed-updates main

# experimental debian
deb http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ experimental main
#deb http://ftp2.debian.org.ua/debian/ sid main

Bonus

nginx-mainline 1.5.6+

curl http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | sudo apt-key add - 
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ wheezy nginx'
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nginx

mariadb 10.0+

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xcbcb082a1bb943db
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://mirror.timeweb.ru/mariadb/repo/10.0/debian/ wheezy main'
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

or source code ..

# Fix: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4977
#      https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5054
cd /tmp
apt-get build-dep mariadb-5.5
apt-get install cmake libaio1 libaio-dev fakeroot valgrind
apt-get source mariadb-5.5
cd mariadb-5.5*
curl https://mariadb.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/23610/mdev-4977.patch | patch -p1
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
# apt-get -b source mariadb-5.5

• Kernel 3.12 Released – Install and Compile in Debian Linux

  Be mindful that “Kernel module loader” is selected in “Loadable module support”. If it is not, and you are using kernel modules, it can seriously mess things up. kernel_image kernel_headers kernel_source

# Install kernel build toolkits
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential ncurses-base ncurses-dev fakeroot kernel-package
##make mrproper && make localmodconfig
$ cp /boot/config-`uname –r` .config
$ make menuconfig
# Clean
$ make-kpkg clean
# Parallel build
$ export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor|wc -l)
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 1 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers

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