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hevisko

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Registered: 2017-07-24

Posts: 8  

[Q] Debian Bookworm/(Trixie) -> Daedalus/(Excalibur)

Good day,

I'm doing quite a number of VPS deploys across various providers for anycast type reasons, and... Debian is always there... just me wanting Devuan obviously...

So: Is there some "how-to" to do a Debian-> Devuan conversion?
Typically it'll be Bookworm (Trixie still "new"), but just wondering about any gotchas documented my searchAIfu haven't yet find?

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 3,582  

Re: [Q] Debian Bookworm/(Trixie) -> Daedalus/(Excalibur)

Here you go!

Migrate from Debian Trixie to Excalibur
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … libur.html

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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,743  

Re: [Q] Debian Bookworm/(Trixie) -> Daedalus/(Excalibur)

If you're going from bookworm to excalibur, you're doing an upgrade at the same time as the migration, so it's probably a good idea to look over the upgrade instructions. One gotcha on upgrade is that you must install the usrmerge package before you upgrade.  I don't think it matters if your sources are pointed to bookworm or excalibur for that package. (I've done it both ways.)

Upgrade to Excalibur
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … -excalibur

rbit

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Registered: 2018-06-12

Posts: 80  

Re: [Q] Debian Bookworm/(Trixie) -> Daedalus/(Excalibur)

This page https://www.devuan.org/os/install also contains links for bookworm -> daedalus