On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:08:23 pm Andy Smith wrote: > The release of the three newer stable versions of Debian seems to have > happened without you noticing.
Life has handed me a whole mess of things to deal with over the past year or two... > If you remain subscribed to this mailing list then you will surely read here > about the release of > Debian 12 (bookworm), but if you want a very low traffic announcements feed > then you could subscribe to the debian-announce > list instead: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/ > > It's only received 6 emails so far this year: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2021/threads.html I *do* have that list flowing in here, along with Debian News and Debian Security. I guess I need to give it some more attention? > > consulted the release notes about how one might go about upgrading, and > > from the latest on back each one says something to > > the effect of only being able to upgrade from the last major version, so > > if there's a good way to do this whole thing at once > > I'd sure like to hear about it. > > Yes, upgrades are only supported from one release to another, so if you wish > to upgrade this machine you're going to have to consult the > release notes for Debian 9 about upgrading from 8.x to 9.x, and then the > release notes for Debian 10, and so on until you are at Debian > 11.x. I have multiple tabs open in my browser to just those things. > It's not supported to go directly from 8 to 11 (or even from 8 to 10) and > trying to do so will probably end in failure. > > Or you could just reinstall and then put your data files back in > place from your backups. That may be quicker. Maybe, but I'm not sure that I want to go there at the moment. > > The only thing that works there is to log in as a regular user, and then > > use the su command to get there. A bit of a pain. Where > > in the software is this controlled? I really would like to change this > > behavior, if at all possible. > > I am not aware of any modern desktop environment that allows to log in and > run the entire GUI as root, for reasons you said you didn't > want to hear about. Someone else may be able to suggest some alternate > desktop environment that allows this. Well, I guess we'll see what turns up in the messages then. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
