I have a few (~5) applications where the version in the debian stable repos is to old for me. Examples would be podman and restic. I found out that the version for testing are recent enough. Is it possible to install specific apps from testing while the default is stable?
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Just goto Trixie.
Yes, this is possible if you configure preferences (see
man apt_preferences). However if you install numerous packages from testing, this can lead to various bugs. I used to do such installation and concluded that it is better to avoid this.What kind of bugs where that?
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
With that said you could also check if the packages you require are available in the backports repository. It doesn’t look like Restic or Podman have packages available but its possible they will during Trixie’s lifetime.
The trixie freeze has started. I would simply move there.
What would I need to do to switch?
Can you post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Presumably it’s as simple as changing all the bookworm references to trixie.
I removed all comments for simplicity.
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware contrib non-freeHere is the official upgrade documentation
TL;DR
- Back up anything important
- Change bookworm to trixie, bookworm-security to trixie-security, and bookworm-updates to trixie-updates in your sources.list
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt full-upgrade
Pay attention to your full-upgrade. Good luck.
Thanks!
