On Fri 03 Mar 2023 at 10:57:43 (-0500), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 10:57 PM songbird <songb...@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.
