Re: upgrading and stuff
On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:08:23 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> The release of the three newer stable versions of Debian seems to have happened without you noticing.
Life has handed me a whole mess of things to deal with over the past year or two...
> If you remain subscribed to this mailing list then you will surely read here about the release of
> Debian 12 (bookworm), but if you want a very low traffic announcements feed then you could subscribe to the debian-announce
> list instead:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/
>
> It's only received 6 emails so far this year:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2021/threads.html
I *do* have that list flowing in here, along with Debian News and Debian Security. I guess I need to give it some more attention?
> > consulted the release notes about how one might go about upgrading, and from the latest on back each one says something to
> > the effect of only being able to upgrade from the last major version, so if there's a good way to do this whole thing at once
> > I'd sure like to hear about it.
>
> Yes, upgrades are only supported from one release to another, so if you wish to upgrade this machine you're going to have to consult the
> release notes for Debian 9 about upgrading from 8.x to 9.x, and then the release notes for Debian 10, and so on until you are at Debian
> 11.x.
I have multiple tabs open in my browser to just those things.
> It's not supported to go directly from 8 to 11 (or even from 8 to 10) and trying to do so will probably end in failure.
>
> Or you could just reinstall and then put your data files back in
> place from your backups. That may be quicker.
Maybe, but I'm not sure that I want to go there at the moment.
> > The only thing that works there is to log in as a regular user, and then use the su command to get there. A bit of a pain. Where
> > in the software is this controlled? I really would like to change this behavior, if at all possible.
>
> I am not aware of any modern desktop environment that allows to log in and run the entire GUI as root, for reasons you said you didn't
> want to hear about. Someone else may be able to suggest some alternate desktop environment that allows this.
Well, I guess we'll see what turns up in the messages then.
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