Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:54:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster?
> >
> > What, in this helpful thread, do you find difficult to understand?
> >
> > You have a collection of important machines in your charge. The
> > complexity of managing them does not appear to be your forte.
> > Eptness appears to have deserted you.
> >
> > Stick wuth what you have. It is less strain on you and on us. :)
> >
> > --
> > Brian.
>
> Brian - maybe a bit more consideration? Any of us can be exasperating
> but it's worth spending some time with Gene to get it right.
>
> Gene,
>
> You have two upgrades to do.
>
> One from stretch -> buster. 9-10 That takes you from 2017 -> 2019.
>
> If you can reduce your /etc/apt/sources.list by commenting out third
> party repositories like Trinity, that will help.
>
> [Taken from https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using]
>
> The Stretch /etc/apt/sources.list should look like this:
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib
> non-free
>
> Bring Stretch up to date finally: apt update ; apt full-upgrade
>
> Go find the release notes for Buster:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/index.en.ht
>ml - especially Section 4 and 5
>
> Buster sources.list - Buster was the first list to use deb.debian.org
> extensively
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
> contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security
> buster/updates main contrib non-free
>
> [Taken from https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade]
>
> Use apt update ; apt upgrade ; apt full-upgrade (optionally apt
> autoremove)
>
> Buster to Bullseye - 10-11 - 2019-2021
>
> Follow the same process again, essentially
>
> Bullseye sources.list
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main
> contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/
> bullseye-security main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib
> non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main
> contrib non-free
>
> Uncomment third party repositories - change appropriately, then apt
> update ; apt upgrade ; apt full-upgrade
>
> It's worth taking time to do this and writing down what step you've
> taken (or just print off the appropriate pages and use them as a tick
> list) There's a lot to do and it's _easy_ to mess up.
>
> Take care - all best, as always,
>
> Andy Cater
Thank you Andy, thats more of the recipe I need to follow.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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