Upgrading to trixie
Tuesday Aug 26 8:33:39 2025
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debian 13 codename trixie was released on August 9th 2025. I upgraded
from debian 12 bookworm to trixie on August 11th with great success.
How did I do it? That's easy: Reading the fscking manual just like I
did with bookworm.
I started using debian long long ago, with debian 3.1 sarge and wow,
it's been a while now. Every two years I tried to upgrade to the
latest release and usually it was a complete failure. I had to
reinstall the system because there was some kind of a mess. This was
not debian fault but mine. I hardly ever read the upgrading
instructions and apart from that, I usually had so much software from
third party sources that it was really hard for the upgrade to run
smoothly.
This ended two years ago when preparing to upgrade I decided to read
the documentation. Apart from other some basic instructions (backup
important data and so on ...) the manual recommended to get rid of
all the software that could interfere with the process and start the
upgrade from pure debian. And it worked, oh man, it did work like a
charm.
This year I did it again. Before the dist upgrade command, I read the
recommended procedure and I did not start until I was pretty sure I
was running in the right direction.
In short. I am so glad that everything worked so well that I cannot
put it into words. It is a great relief and at the same time it is an
important time saver. Imagine having to reinstall everything from
scratch and reinstalling all your configuration files again.