Upgrade your system from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye – using the command line by updating your package lists editing your repository sources and performing a full system upgrade

Make a complete backup of your system or virtual machine snapshot before you start

Update Current Packages

root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~#
root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# apt-get update -y
root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# apt-get upgrade -y
root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Reboot your system to apply the latest Buster change

Update Repository Sources replace every instance of the word buster with bullseye

root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Run the Upgrade to Bullseye update your package index with the new Bullseye repositories

root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# apt-get update

Run a minimal upgrade first to prepare system dependencies

root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# apt-get upgrade –without-new-pkgs

Perform the complete distribution upgrade

root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# apt-get full-upgrade

Remove obsolete installation files

root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# apt-get autoclean

Reboot your system to apply the latest Bullseye change

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