Re: Debian stuck at 12.6
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:03:48AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus
> accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems
> to have become stuck at 12.7.
>
> I have a second machine on which I installed a fresh Bookworm a few
> weeks ago. This has point release 12.9.
>
12.10 was just released this last weekend so you might want to upgrade
again. It's not vital but you'll then be more up to date.
apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade works for me to do that.
I hit something similar the other day. You can try (from Adam Barratt on IRC):
adsb | often just rm-ing /var/lib/apt/lists/* and trying again is enough
In my case, I switched mirrors - my /etc/apt/sources.list pointed to
deb.debian.org in each line of the stanza.
I'm in the UK to changed this to ftp.uk.debian.org for each line and it
worked for me. I think sometimes it's just a stale file / cache somewhere.
Try changing mirrors to the nearest mirror in your country, maybe, and
see if that makes a difference.
As ever with apt problems, it's really useful if you can copy you
*actual* /etc/apt/sources.list file to the mailing list.
It is very easy to make a typo. Invariably, when you do so, someone else
will spot _exactly_ what you've done immediately, even though you've been
looking at it for hours :)
With every good wish, as ever,
Andy Cater
(amacater@debian.org)
> I have replaced /etc/apt/source.list on the 12.7 machine with that from
> the 12.9 machine, done
>
> apt-get clean
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> but no new packages are installed.
>
> Where could I look to see where the problem is?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
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