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General Debian • Well, that was painless

I saw a post about updating to Debian 12.9 -- and my reaction was, more or less, "What?! There's already a point release?" because I just installed 12.8 a few days ago. I went to check my version by looking at my Conky's OS line, and found there was no version number in it, but it was no longer too long for the alloted space (hadn't got around to adjusting the Conky width), so I dug up how to check the version directly from CLI -- and danged if it didn't come back as 12.9. No muss, no fuss, didn't even know I'd been through a point release upgrade; didn't even have a large update (probably because most of the changes were already in the repos and got installed by the Debian installer).

On Kubuntu, I wouldn't have gotten a point release without running a different update command (sudo apt dist-upgrade instead of sudo apt upgrade for normal updates) (because they often/usually involve kernel updates as well as significant version changes to a lot of the support libraries). I like this way better... Image may be NSFW.
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Statistics: Posted by Silent Observer — 2025-01-25 19:02 — Replies 0 — Views 46



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