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Debian Bookworm (12) upgrade to Debian Trixie (13)
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Upgrade Debian Bookworm 12 to Debian Trixie 13

Default Debian Sources

sed -i 's/bookworm/trixie/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

Running Docker? Make sure to alter the Docker source as well.

sed -i 's/bookworm/trixie/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

After the above, run the following commands

apt update
apt full-upgrade
apt dist-upgrade
apt autoremove
apt modernize-sources
systemctl reboot

Running Tailscale?

mkdir -p --mode=0755 /usr/share/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/debian/trixie.noarmor.gpg | tee /usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/debian/trixie.tailscale-keyring.list | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.sources
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