Re: Help! Last chromium version needed in debian-edu 11

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:56:12 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
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Hi,

On  Di 11 Feb 2025 14:59:43 CET, Lorenzo Ceriani wrote:

> Hi,
> I've run a computer lab with debian-edu 11 without trouble for some years.
> The lab will be used for a national online school test next April, and last
> version of chromium or other browser is needed from the test platform.
> (120.0.6099.224 that is available in bullseye at the moment is not enough)
> I tried to do this on a test machine:
>
>> add the line  deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main to sources.list
>> apt update
>> apt install chromium
>> delete the line from sources.list
>> apt update
>
> it succeeded in upgrading chromium to version 133. etc but it broke
> something else in the system: now user sessions ends at random and i found
> errors like
> "Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts" in
> /var/log/messages and whatever else.
> I understand it can't work in that way.
>
> Is there a cleaner way to solve the problem?
> Shall I try to upgrade to debian-edu 12 even it isn't released yet?
> Thanks for any help or suggestions!
>
> Lorenzo

installing Debian sid package on a Debian 11 system pulls in  
uncontrollable dependencies and breakage of the system is likely.

You could upgrade/dist-upgrade your workstations (not the Debian Edu  
server!!!) to Debian Edu 12 via:

   sed -i /etc/apt/sources.list -e "s/bullseye/bookworm/g"
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get upgrade
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This should work...

Mike
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