Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12
Feb 28, 2023, 12:24 by local10@tutanota.com:
> Feb 28, 2023, 09:04 by timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com:
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>> I just updated my media center PC from Debian Bullseye to Debian Bookworm. The upgrade went alright. I initially had to download almost 2GB of 1640 packages. Around 600 failed to upgrade and I had to manually install them in small chunks to fix the dependencies.
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> Sounds like you were doing something wrong. Some packages may fail but certainly not 600 of them, at least not the packages that were installed manually. Packages that were auto-installed should not be installed manually.
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> In my case, about 5 packages had to (re)installed manually when I was upgrading from Debian 11 to 12.
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Just to add to the above:
If a package fails to upgrade, use "aptitude show <package>" to find out if the package was automatically installed. If it was then use "aptitude why <package>" to find out what manually installed package requires it, then reinstall that manually installed package, it will automatically install all the dependencies it needs.
Regards,
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