upgrading an old forgotten vm kindly hosted by @7666 from debian buster to trixie. what can go wrong #linux
well, it seems I've already found the first issue
after some monkeying around, namely manually downloading libcrypt1 and libc-bin, managed to make progress towards a sequential install of bullseye -> ... -> trixie
shout-out to this random dude https://stackoverflow.com/a/77957251
Libcrypt.so.1 error after dist-update on Debian

I have the following problem: I was updating debian on my lenovo laptop from distro 4.19 to latest. During upgrade the shell give me an error then I can't use sudo or su due authentication error. S...

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