Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

[Keith Bainbridge <keith.bainbridge.3216@gmx.com>]

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All the best

Keith Bainbridge

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Sent from my Android tablet, Please excuse my brevity..

On 28 February 2023 20:21:40 UTC, Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:

On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 14:52 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:32:27PM +0000, Tixy wrote:
On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 13:16 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
[...]
All I did was modify /etc/apt/sources.list from Bullseye to Bookworm, then
I ran apt update and apt upgrade. I guess I could have run apt full-upgrade
and that probably would have worked better.

It would have. If you looked at the release notes [1] it suggests

# apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
# apt full-upgrade

Then lists some possible issues and there remedy.

[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade

It's also worth mentioning that in bookworm, non-free firmware has been
moved to a new section called "non-free-firmware".  If you use any of
that -- most people do! -- then you either need to change "non-free" to
"non-free-firmware" or to "non-free non-free-firmware", depending on
your specific needs.


That's is the release notes too :-) (I know, there's probably only a
small minority of us who actually read the docs before upgrading.)