Hey there,
Debian offers unattended upgrades for specific packages:
If you follow this sites instructions carefully, then you don't have to worry about updating Tor manually anymore (but you would want to if there is a significant security issue that got patched and got assigned it's CVE / TROVE number).
Hope I could help you,
George
P.S:
Even though I ditched Debian for ArchLinux on both my desktop and servers a long time ago, if you run any issues, feel free to ask, I can quickly create a virtual machine and check what is wrong with your config, but the page I linked has everything you need, really.
On Saturday, May 11th, 2024 at 3:46 AM, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, After checking with
lsb_release -a, it is now running Debian 11.9. Is there a tool for auto updating tor when a new version is released?
On Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2024 04:30:49 CEST Keifer Bly wrote:
> Doing it via this guide here:
>
> https://phoenixnap.com/kb/upgrade-debian-10-to-11
>
> What other changes need to be made? Thanks.
> --Keifer
Be careful, you can only ever upgrade to the next version!
From Debian 9 to 11 doesn't work. You have to do 2 upgrades.
From 9 to 10 first and later from 10 to 11.
You also cannot upgrade Windows 7 to Win 11 directly.
This is very time-consuming, hence the recommendation to reinstall.
No matter what you do, I would back up the tor config and the tor keys first.
Important: (apt-key is deprecated) How the tor repo is added has changed.
https://support.torproject.org/apt/
Again as a recommendation: Take the official Debian documentation and not any
random guides from the Internet. Here are the links again. The documentary is
translated into many languages. Chapters 2 and 4 are important.
Your architecture is: 64-Bit-PC (AMD64)
https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/releasenotes
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm//releasenotes
Your relay is running Tor 0.4.8.11 on Linux
That means you have time to read and ask questions.
I'm out of here for now.
I have enormous personal and legal problems because of the exits that I have
to take care of.
> On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 10:46 AM Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok. So the vps I have is command line only, is there a way to update to
> > debian 11 via the command line? Thanks.
> >
> > --Keifer
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2024, 1:22 AM Bauruine <torcontact@tuxli.ch> wrote:
> >> Sorry I meant reinstall it with Bookworm of course. You can backup and
> >> restore your keys if you like so you are not loosing your relays history.
> >> There is some documentation at
> >> https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/ "Backup Tor
> >> Identity Keys"
> >> On 08.05.24 10:16, Bauruine wrote:
> >>
> >> What they told you, maybe a bit harsh, is that you are using a very old
> >> Debian version that will soon be end of life and won't get updates
> >> anymore.
> >> apt-get upgrade doesn't upgrade to new releases, you have to do it
> >> "manually". Think like a Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade which also
> >> doesn't
> >> happen with the normal Windows updates. You can either upgrade from your
> >> current version Buster (10 )--> Bullseye (11) --> Bookworm (12) or just
> >> reinstall it with Bullseye and configure it again.
> >>
> >> Bauruine
> >> On 07.05.24 19:50, Keifer Bly wrote:
> >>
> >> Right? Why comment if your just going to be such a jerk and not be
> >> helpful?
> >>
> >> I am just unable to figure why this would suddenly happen when the relay
> >> has been updating without issue and suddenly this happens, have been
> >> keeping Debian up to date using apt-get update so wondering what else
> >> needs
> >> to be done? Thanks.
> >> --Keifer
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM Micah Elizabeth Scott
> >> <beth@torproject.org>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 5/6/24 3:19 PM, lists@for-privacy.net wrote:
> >>> > Did you even only read 2 sentences from the link?
> >>>
> >>> Can we stop just accepting behavior like this on the tor community's
> >>> mailing lists?
> >>>
> >>> Seriously, it makes us all look bad.
> >>>
> >>> I'm sorry folks have to endure so much just to use a computer program
> >>> that's intended to be humane and helpful.
> >>>
> >>> --beth
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