Update Debian Buster (10) to Debian Bullseye (11)¶

Backup

Before you start, make sure you have a working backup of your system!

Please make sure to run all commands as root user.

In order to always be able to use the latest version of openITCOCKPIT, it is important to keep the underlying operating system up to date. You can use this guide to upgrade your Debian Buster System to Debian Bullseye.

Requirements¶

openITCOCKPIT in version 4.x
No packages containing lxd

Removal of all `lxd` packages¶

If you have lxd packages installed on your system, they must be removed first. You can check this with the command

apt list --installed | grep lxd

If any lxd packages where found, remove tham like so

apt -y remove lxd*

Installation of all updates¶

Before you start updating Debian, please make sure that all available updates have been installed.

apt update
apt -y full-upgrade

Stop PHP-FPM service¶

systemctl stop php7.3-fpm.service

Detect openITCOCKPIT packages¶

First all installed packages of openITCOCKPIT are determined and saved in the variable openitcockpit_upd.

openitcockpit_upd=$(apt-mark showmanual | grep openitcockpit | xargs echo)" "$(apt-mark showauto | grep openitcockpit | xargs echo)

Change package sources¶

Now the package sources can be changed to the next Debian release

echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

sed -i 's/buster/bullseye/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

Upgrade durchführen¶

Now the actual upgrade from Debian 10 to 11 starts.

apt update
apt -y full-upgrade $openitcockpit_upd php-json php-curl php-gearman php-xml

Update PHP¶

Now all PHP packages will be updated.

systemctl stop php7.3-fpm.service

dpkg -l | awk '/php7.3/ { print $2}' | sed 's/php7.3/php7.4/' | xargs apt-get install -y
dpkg -l | awk '/php7.3/ { print $2}' | xargs apt-get purge -y

systemctl restart php7.4-fpm.service

Update configuration¶

In the last step, all configuration files are updated and regenerated if necessary.

openITCOCKPIT Master¶

If you are running the update on an openITCOCKPIT master system, use the following command

openitcockpit-update --cc

openITCOCKPIT Satellite¶

For openITCOCKPIT Satellite execute

/opt/openitc/frontend/UPDATE.sh

A restart of the system is recommended to complete the update

reboot