• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    51·
    1 day ago

    What? Software Center is GNOME, not Ubuntu. Discover is KDE, not Ubuntu. Debian updates can be done the same way? I don’t do any of the things you mention. Using SC or just apt upgrade works just fine.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      They’re talking about a Debian 12 -> Debian 13 upgrade

      On Debian, you get release notes on what commands to run.

      Ubuntu has their own software update utility, separate from Software Center or Discover, that runs the commands for you

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Ahhh OK. I’ve always gone fresh for a full upgrade. But does apt dist-upgrade not work? That’s what the docs say to do.

        • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          You have to at least modify your sources.list.d manually first. For most people, updating sources.list.d and running full-upgrade will probably work fine…

          The full instructions are

          1. run dist-upgrade
          2. remove back ports
          3. remove obsolete packages
          4. remove non-debian packages
          5. clean up old configuration files
          6. add non-free-firmware (this is a 12 -> 13 specific)
          7. remove proposed updates
          8. disable pinning
          9. update sources.list.d to point to the next release
          10. apt upgrade --without-new-packages
          11. apt full-upgrade

          It takes like an hour? but it’s still not “just press okay.”

          Ubuntu’s has broken on some upgrades for friends and they had to do the whole Debian process manually, but it does try to automate the removals, disablements, and updating sources

          Edit: instructions taken from Trixie release. I skipped some that aren’t really unique, like make a backup

          https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html