Debian trixie

I upgraded both my laptop and VPS to trixie (13.0). No dealbreakers as of this writing – I’ll update below as I find broken stuff.

This is my first use of apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs and apt full-upgrade. I don’t know if it’s newer or if I was just unaware of them before. Saw them in the upgrade-to-trixie notes and used them without drama.

laptop

I did my laptop first because it’s physically local to me and because crashing it wouldn’t affect anyone else.

It required a surprising amount of data, about 4GB if my mental math is accurate. I do have some large packages installed, like flightgear so the actual OS update might be much smaller.

Two minor hiccups:

• autokey wouldn’t run, complaining that /home/me/autokey didn’t exist. I moved that dir up from /home/me/.config and it runs fine.
• I had to apt install libfuse2 to get AppImages to run. The only image I run is the VictronConnect image.

update

jekyll broke: env: ‘ruby3.1’: No such file or directory. Trixie version is ruby 3.3.8 so I need to figure out how to tell jekyll to use that. Ended up changing the ruby3.1 shebang line to ruby in both jekyll and bundle and this would allow me to run them. jekyll complained about bigdecimal so I added that to the Gemfile and bundle install --verbose. Seems to be working.

Bizarre: now autokey wants to be in /home/me/.config and made a new config there. Fine; I moved the files back from my home dir and it works. WTF.

More trouble from Autokey. Abbreviations not shown and not editable, per this bug. Used this workaround to get it going again. rename 's/^\.//' .*.json worked for me, but make backups of that dir beforehand because I could be clueless.

ranger no longer runs under tmux but runs fine outside tmux. Seems to be [this bug]https://github.com/ranger/ranger/issues/3062) affecting 1.9.4. Saw lf (list ffiles) as “heavily-inspired” by ranger. Works great; I’ll use it until ranger is fixed. I prefer ranger’s default keybindings. sudo apt install lf

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

The VPS upgrade made me a bit nervous since it’s on another continent. I ran the commands in a tmux session in case my connection fell over.

It went very fast because there were fewer packages and it was sitting on a fast connection.

I was mainly worried about the webserver, the freshrss install, and the dokuwiki install. All seem to be working.

No hiccups so far.