Apt full-upgrade | Getting the new software updates from Debian

This article is at: https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/apt-full-upgrade-getting-the-new-software-updates-from-debian/5664

By Joao_Manoel

Hello,

I couldn’t work on the device for a few months, but yesterday I tried do finally upgrade to the new Debian. I tried it before and I remember that it didn’t go well. I got a lot of problems and I didn’t get the lima driver working even compiling everything myself. In the end, I gave up.

So I invested a lot of time yesterday, and today to understand what was made to get the lima driver working with X11. I know that getting everything working was difficult but if only a few know what was done it is difficult for people to keep updating it if we don’t have much experience.

I found many duplicated libraries, strange modifications in the kernel, but it looks like I could understand most of it. Maybe from now, we can run mainline Debian without modifications, and in the near future, I can create a bare minimal Debian for the clockworkpi without many unnecessary packages installed.

The first thing to do is to create a backup of your sdcard if something goes wrong. It is likely I forgot one or two steps, but the trick ones should be here.

The first thing to note is that to get the mesa working from a Debian package we need to use Debian 11 or sid, as is documented here:

https://wiki.debian.org/MaliGraphics

I decided to go all the way to sid, so we get the new updates from mesa as soon it goes out without the need to be compiling everything myself. The idea is to go closer to a official