Converting Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) into Debian Testing

Linux Mint Debian Edition is built on Debian Testing. After months of dealing with flaky mirrors and a not-so-impressive distro, I decided it was time to flip the switch. (Other than Cinnamon and/or MATE, Mint doesn't offer much.)

I am going to attempt to perform an in-place switch by modifying my sources.list. We'll see how it turns out - either it will work, or I'll be installing Debian Testing later tonight.

I generated a new sources.list from http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/.

Old sources.list:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint-debian/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint-debian/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint-debian/latest/multimedia testing main non-free

New sources.list (for x86-64)

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

# Third Parties Repos

# deb-multimedia.org
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

# Oracle VM VirtualBox # Don't care to have right now.
# deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib non-free

I'll check in later and let you know how it goes!

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