Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12
On Fri 03 Mar 2023 at 10:57:43 (-0500), Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 10:57 PM songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
> > Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > >
> > > 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. Other than that the upgrade went
> > > relatively smoothly and I am liking the new color scheme and wallpapers.
> > >
> > > Anyone else have any good or bad experiences upgrading to bookworm.
> >
> > considering it's not released yet and has 331 RC bugs still to
> > be dealt with (or ignored) that's a bit of a jumping the start
> > line signal.
> >
> > helping to find bugs is good though too. :)
>
> I have been running Bullseye on my notebook for almost a year with very few
> problems. My sound hardware and my WiFi does not work on debian 11. My
> notebook is my primary work machine and it has been working well. I look at
> testing as a rolling release. My media center Mini PC is all Intel and
> everything on it just works. I wanted to try out KDE Big Screen which is
> not available in Debian 11 so I had to upgrade to Debian 12. Big Screen
> works ok on Wayland. I think I am missing some application packages though.
> The Sound and WiFi buttons just launch a blue screen that never actually
> loads. The shutdown button works fine. All in all I like it. I started
> removing unneeded software to make it more streamlined. All I really need
> is Dolphin, VLC and Elisa. Watch videos and listen to music.
I just tried upgrading 11→12 on a laptop of mine. The only "snag",
which was no surprise, was being left with a grub.cfg that only boots
the one, upgraded system. That was quickly rectified by grub-mkconfig
after uncommenting GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in /etc/default/grub.
(Thanks for putting that commented line into the file.)
Under bullseye, there were 2015 packages, including libreoffice and
texlive. I run fvwm (now called fvwm2, apparently) with no DE/DM.
It was "pure" Debian except that xtoolwait (from squeeze) was and
still is installed.
Running buster, I copied my bullseye root filesystem to a spare
partition, and adjusted the LABELs in the new copy's fstab.
I booted it up and edited the sources list to bookworm, including
adding the new non-free-firmware.
I ran apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get --purge autoremove,
apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-get --purge autoremove again, answering
no to keep my configuration files, yes to ignore any bug reports, and
yes to restarting services (including any that might have disconnected
a remote session). It was running on wifi, but I was at the console.
Statistics for the four steps: 627 upgraded and 972 not upgraded;
75 to remove and 968 not upgraded; 967 upgraded, 245 newly installed
and 13 to remove; and 79 to remove. Every thing completed smoothly,
with no dependency problems at all.
I haven't used it in anger as I don't want to disturb my dotfiles etc,
but I checked that sound played perfectly with timidity. Obviously
I've got a number of changes to read up on, with some new packages
to look over.
Cheers,
David.
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