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update gnubee debian jessie to buster, to bullseye

Upgrade to stretch (Debian 9) and then buster (Debian 10)

To upgrade gnubee to stretch, put this in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main

Then upgrade the packages:

apt update
apt full-upgrade
apt autoremove
reboot

To upgrade to buster, put this in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main

and upgrade the packages:

apt update
apt full-upgrade
apt autoremove
reboot

Then to bullseye (Debian 11)

  1. Make sure the system is fully up to date
apt update
apt full-upgrade
apt autoremove
reboot
  1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list
  • replace each instance of buster with bullseye
  • find the security line, replace buster/updates with bullseye-security
  • this is an example:
deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  1. Again upgrade the system
apt update
apt full-upgrade
apt autoremove
reboot

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Andreas Wagner
Freelance System Administrator from Tallinn, Estonia.