Comments on: How to Switch from Debian Stable to Testing: A Step-by-Step Guide

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:26:51 +0000

I tried this and it caused my system to suddenly have a login manager and an unwanted windowmanager, should I refrain from executing the final 'sudo apt full-upgrade' command ? Thanks for the article by the way it was a help and I should have listened to my suspicions that the last command was probably unnecessary. Best Regards.

By: Rodney E Barnes

Rodney E Barnes — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:10:55 +0000

I tried this, but I didn’t work. It says I have conflicts. Maybe its because I originally had backports enabled in sources.list? I commented them out when I tried it – I followed the pictured sources.list [except I’m in Oregon so I use the osuosl mirror for everything except security]. Anyway, it just gives a conflict error and exits. Several actually, to many to list in a comment. Sigh. I was hoping for it to be easy. I want early access to KDE 6 when it drops into testing later this year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:48:32 +0000

Thanks for the help!

By: KING BOB

KING BOB — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:35:46 +0000

In reply to KING BOB. Got it done last night, very pleased with the result. Testing has a 6.5 Kernel, yay! Got a current version of KDE and all my addon apps. Sometimes being picky is just being persistent. Really happy I went with this solution.

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:56:27 +0000

In reply to KING BOB.

Hey Bob,

Your comment truly brightens my day and makes all our hard work feel so rewarding. Thank you so much!
As for Arch, well, I’ve been a bit partial towards it for the past 15 years, so I might just keep my opinions to myself on that one. 🙂 And when it comes to Debian Testing on desktop – I agree; it’s such a timeless classic that it’s hard to be beaten by any other distro.

Best,
Bobby

By: KING BOB

KING BOB — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:02:29 +0000

I enjoy how straight to the point your instructions are. Thank you!
Of all the distros out there I cannot find one that does what I want the way I want it to. I must be too dang picky.
I have print your instructions, I also print off the debian instructions for backporting a newer kernel as precaution.
I’m going to install KDE with a 6.5 min. kernel to support Thunderbolt and use the newer software from testing so I can get what I want.
Install Nvidia driver then I’m going to APT hold the kernel and nvidia.
Call me wreakless but it’s not a server. It’s just a laptop I use a couple of hours a day and I like Debian. It’s just too dang old for creators. LOL
Believe me this certainly is safer than building an Arch install. I’ve already crossed that bridge and burned it.

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:48:59 +0000

In reply to smallcomment. Hi, The key point here is "stable-specific." "testing-updates" does not fall into this category. :) Best, Bobby

By: smallcomment

smallcomment — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:03:16 +0000

Small amendment . . .
“In addition, if you have added any other stable-specific apt sources to your system, such as *-updates, remove, disable, or comment them out.”
And in the picture above you’re keeping testing-updates, which is kinda confusing. But do as in picture 🙂

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:54:41 +0000

Thanks for the article. What about security? As far as I know, testing doesn’t have security updates.

By: Kuiper

Kuiper — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:58:37 +0000

No chance! 🙂

Debian stable is working for me — and it really does just work. And if I install mainly Flatpaks, I get app updates.

That being said, the Testing stream is no doubt very good. But I must close my eyes to developments for a few years lest I become dissatisfied with Gnome 43 and get the urge to “upgrade”.