How to upgrade to Debian 13

May 11, 2024

Debian, Linux

This is a short guide on to upgrade your system to Debian 13 which is testing and packages are a lot more up to date for example Hyprland needs Debian 13. So do at your own risk and you can do it from pretty much any version to start run this command

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Replace where it says your Debian version code name that you have installed to trixie e.g

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free-firmware deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free-firmware deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware

To

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main non-free-firmware deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main non-free-firmware deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main non-free-firmware

Enter these commands to upgrade

sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade -y

Then reboot your system and run neofetch to double check and you should have Debian 13.