[sf-lug] Debian 12.0 'bookworm' released as 'Stable'

[Ken Shaffer]

Bookworm, Debian 12
June 11, 2023, Bookworm was released, so I downloaded the ISO, and upgraded
the 8GB Intel Compute Stick (ICS) running Buster (Debian 11).  I have
Debian installed on the internal memory of the ICS, and Antix 19 on an
MSD.  Since space is so limited (8GB total, but 1GB swap, and 500MB EFI,
there's only 5.77GB for root.
I gave some space to Debian on the MSD, and use a link from
/var/cache/apt/archives to put the downloaded packages off root.  The
usual, update/upgrade Bullseye, then edit the sources.list, changing
bullseye to bookwork, and update/upgrade.
Oops, still ran out of room, getting the 6.1 kernel.  Looked around with du
for a likely directory, big enough to help, and picked /usr/share to move
to the msd, replacing the root /usr/share dir with a link.  It helped to
have a second system (Antix) to boot and
make the changes.  Upgrade then finished, looked OK so tried to reboot to
the 6.1 kernel. Reboot failed, got X, but no desktop, still a space
problem, so from a virtual term, cleaned out the old 5.19 kernel and
autoremoved.  The /usr/share link relied on a noauto mount of the msd,  so
decided to just copy the msd/share files
back to root's /usr/share, then reboot worked.  Got root down to 91% full
for this vanilla Debian install.

Pretty easy if you have the room. /usr/share did contain some files
necessary for the package manager to work, so the link must be functional
for things to work.
Ken

On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 1:22 PM aaronco36 <aaronco36 at sdf.org> wrote:

> Debian 12.0 'bookworm' released as 'Stable'
>
> Extensively quoting from Debian.org's release announcement 'Debian 12
> "bookworm" released'[01]:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> June 10th, 2023
>
> After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is
> proud to present its new stable version 12 (code name "bookworm").
>
> "bookworm" will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined
> work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team.
>
> Following the 2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware, we have
> introduced a new archive area making it possible to separate non-free
> firmware from the other non-free packages:
> * non-free-firmware
> Most non-free firmware packages have been moved from non-free to
> non-free-firmware. This separation makes it possible to build a variety of
> official installation images.
>
> Debian 12 "bookworm" ships with several desktop environments, such as:
> * Gnome 43,
> * KDE Plasma 5.27,
> * LXDE 11,
> * LXQt 1.2.0,
> * MATE 1.26,
> * Xfce 4.18
>
> This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419
> packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as "obsolete".
> 43,254 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for
> "bookworm" is 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), and is made up of 1,341,564,204
> lines of code.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Further related links:
> - Debian.org's 'Debian bookworm Release Information' link[02]
> - Debian.org's 'Downloading Debian CD/DVD images via HTTP/FTP' link[03]
> - The ocf.berkeley.edu debian-cd mirror here[04] is perhaps closest to the
>    current Berkeley location where am virtually participating in today's
>    BerkeleyLUG meetup[05].
> - Debian.org's 'Downloading Debian CD images with jigdo' (Jigsaw Download)
>    link[06]
> - The ocf.berkeley.edu jigdo-cd mirror link for amd64[07] perhaps closest
>    to the current Berkeley location where am virtually participating in
>    today's BerkeleyLUG meetup[05]
>
> Instead of downloading a fuller official Debian 12 'bookworm' ISO via one
> of the above means, am myself rather _upgrading_ current 'testing' and
> 'bullseye' installations in order to save bandwidth on the various
> download mirrors.
>
> - Debian.org's official and more complete 'Chapter 4. Upgrades from Debian
>    11 (bullseye)'is at [08]
> - Debian's top-level Wiki site is [09]
> - the Debian Wiki's 'DebianBookworm' is at [10] with less-complete upgrade
>    instructions that at [08]
> - the Debian Wiki's 'DebianUpgrade' page is at [11] with similarly
>    less-complete than at [08]
> - the Debian Wiki's 'DebianInstall' page is at [12]
> - the Debian Wiki's 'DebianStability' is at [13] with its hopefully-heeded
>    caution " YMMV. Caveat emptor. As the saying goes, "If it breaks, you
>    get to keep both pieces." ;-) "
>
> As appropriately directed to Rick M, my own feeble excuse is petty
> _Procrastination_ for not yet carrying out his excellent steps in 'Debian
> 8 "Jessie" OpenRC Conversion'[14] in weaning both Debian 'bullseye' and
> 'bookworm' as much as possible away from systemd init and its
> dependencies.  My humble apologies :-\
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> ========================================
> References/Excerpts
> ========================================
> [01]https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610
> [02]https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/
> [03]https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/
> [04]https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian-cd/
> [05]https://meet.jit.si/BerkeleyLUG
> [06]https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
> [07]https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/
> [08]
> https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> [09]https://wiki.debian.org/
> [10]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBookworm
> [11]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade
> [12]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstall
> [13]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStability
> [14]http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/openrc-conversion.html
> ========================================
>
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>
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