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Commands needed to upgrade RPI Raspbian/Debian System
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RPI-FullUpgrade.md

Upgrade "Raspbian" Bullseye to Bookworm

(should work for any upgrade if you update release names)

Prep

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get full-upgrade
# Update the 2 individual files yourself, or run this:
sudo sed -i -e 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

Upgrade
"Interrupting this step after downloading has completed is an excellent way to stress-test your backups"

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get full-upgrade

Cleanup

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo reboot

Check Version

lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release: 12
Codename: bookworm

I have seen many articles that give various commands that do not follow the official way.

This is the proper way and is mostly taken from: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade

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