Oldhabits, You are the bomb. The simplest of things almost always seem to be the best.
This did it! I now have a perfectly functioning & fully upgraded Debian 12 system. But, the ONLY thing different was: ALL I had to do was run the 1st command & it took care of ALL of it. There was nothing...
wizardfromoz, Thanks so much for the effort & assist. It's super early (or late) here in middle America & I've been up for two days. The grey matter is kaput!
I'll look more into it & do some further translation of the surrounding chatter later. As you likely know, it usually takes some time to...
Osprey & Condobloke, Thanks for the straight-away serious replys. Alexzee, I'm sorry you felt compelled to sheer of another piece of any hope I may have left. But, I will also read your article.
I've always upgraded to the latest OS ver. after waiting several months for the bugs to get worked...
HELP, PLEASE. After upgrade from 11 to Deb 12 Bookworm, all packages are up to date using sudo apt update - BUT - "sudo apt upgrade" causes the following:
sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade...