On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM John Boxall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2025-07-28 20:59, Anders Andersson wrote: > > Just upgraded my Raspberry Pi 2 from Bookworm to Trixie. Nothing > > eventful happened, like every time I've upgraded a Debian machine > > since basically Debian Sarge... > > > > Anders, > > I would very much like to understand your method for upgrading a > Raspberry Pi. I asked in the RPI support forum and was pointed to a web > post that explicitly says "upgrading" is not supported. The only method > to upgrade is to build a new image. I tried a scripted upgrade one time > and it failed. I'd be happy to take this off list.
I just did what I always do, follow the upgrade instruction (https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html). The only unusual part for this release was to change source.list to a new format, which is well documented. Then just apt-update, apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs, apt full-upgrade. However, it sounds to me that you're not running Debian, but their own weird version. That would be the root cause, and I don't know much about that. Unless you have unusual requirements I would suggest that you try to install a pure Debian, it works well for me. // Anders
