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When upgrading with debian, you have to be careful. You will cause problems if you mix your own upgrades against the packages especially when the packages try to update at a later point. I know of at least a couple of users who have done that and messad things up. My view would be, if you want to use the packages, stick with them and/or use paul gever's packaged version of cacti that tends to be current. IF you are on an older flavour of debian, there are likely to be dependency issues.

IF you are not really bothered about packaging, but want to have an automated way to update, learn git. You can simply switch between releases with git to upgrade using git checkout release/1.2.14 for example and assuming that version tag exists, it will move your code base onto that. It also has the advantage of showing you if you customised anything. If you had, you can use the --autostash on later versions and it'll then try to re-apply the changes you made previously.

Failing that, you can use the simple approach described above. If you did use a package to install and don't want to lose anything you can freeze the package so it sticks at the version you last used, and then keep upgrading manually. Note, that if that freeze is undone, you will likely have issues unless you revert your sources to what the package expeced.