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walter

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From: Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Belgium

Registered: 2023-07-30

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Upgrade from Boron to Carbon?

Hi,

I know that a fresh install is the best. But if possible I would just like to do a distro upgrade.

There are these instructions; https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8969 to base an upgrade path on.

Are there people who did an upgrade? How did that go?

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2015-09-09

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Re: Upgrade from Boron to Carbon?

I have a laptop running Boron. Normally I would make a new partition, install Carbon to that and migrate settings etc over. That's what I did on my desktop machine, but the laptop drive is encrypted which makes it complicated (though not impossible) so I intend to do an upgrade of Boron to Carbon. I expect the instructions for Beryllium to Boron will pretty much work, but eventually I plan to write a Boron -> Carbon version.

Eventually. I'm a bit tied up with other things right now.

If anyone has any advice or warnings, please post!

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Registered: 2015-09-17

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Re: Upgrade from Boron to Carbon?

Since we don't have a tested dist-upgrade, and my test USB drive seems to be suddenly fried and I can't install carbon, I'll suggest...

1) Rename /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list (I think that's the filename) to bunsen.list.bak and run 'sudo apt update'

2) Read and follow, where appropriate... https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ … ading.html

3) Note that the most notable change is that you no longer run 'sudo dist-upgrade', run 'sudo full-upgrade' instead (though I'm not sure what the difference is)

The manual makes it look more difficult than it is. Reboot, then you can re-enable and update your bl sources (changing them to carbon) and let the fun begin!

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walter

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From: Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Belgium

Registered: 2023-07-30

Posts: 33

Re: Upgrade from Boron to Carbon?

Thanks. I think I will just try it. 

Make back-up of certain things. And just try it. And if it gets messed up I do a full clean install.

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

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Re: Upgrade from Boron to Carbon?

The Beryllium > Boron post you've already found should cover it, if you just change the names appropriately.

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unklar

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Registered: 2015-10-31

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Re: Upgrade from Boron to Carbon?

3) Note that the most notable change is that you no longer run 'sudo dist-upgrade', run 'sudo full-upgrade' instead (though I'm not sure what the difference is)

^Here I still use both commands under 'sid'. It doesn't make any difference. 

But it is correct(!)

sudo apt dist-upgrade

or

sudo apt full-upgrade

I just wanted to say. 

Last edited by unklar (2026-03-13 09:39:44)