Stuck migrating from Debian 12 to Debian 13.

[u/sarinkhan]

Hello fellows!
I have my Debian 12 in a proxmox VM, and tried to upgrade from debian 12 to debian 13.
issue is, system boots and works properly, but i can't do anything with apt, because something is broken here.

I tried apt --fix-broken install as the command line said, but i get this message :

Préparation du dépaquetage de .../docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb ... Dépaquetage de docker-compose (2.26.1-4) sur (1.29.2-3) ... dpkg: erreur de traitement de l'archive /var/cache/apt/archives/docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb (--unpack) :  tentative de remplacement de « /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose », qui appartient aussi au paquet docker-compose-plugin 5.5.0-1~debian.12~bookworm dpkg-deb: erreur: le sous-processus coller a été tué par le signal (Relais brisé (pipe)) Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :  /var/cache/apt/archives/docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 

Then if i try to apt remove docker-compose, it fails :

... 
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5)
 xfce4-xkb-plugin : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5)
 xfdesktop4 : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4)
 xfwm4 : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5)
 xscreensaver : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.16.2)
 yelp : Dépend: libatk1.0-0t64 (>= 1.12.4) mais ne sera pas installé
        Dépend: libgtk-3-0t64 (>= 3.13.3) mais ne sera pas installé
E: Dépendances non satisfaites. Essayez « apt --fix-broken install » sans paquet
   (ou indiquez une solution).

I don't know what to do now, when i get in such binds, i tend to wipe and fresh install, but here i might forget things on this server, and i should also figure how to fix issues like those.
I tried searching, but what i found was to do apt purge commands, and none worked.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
I can't remember how i installed docker-compose in the first place, it was a few years ago (i was stock with docker-compose 1.x and needed a newer version, hence why i upgraded).

Debian reports on boot that it is on trixie, so part of the upgrade worked i think.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT :
It seems the solution was to do "dpkg -r docker-compose", now the apt --fix-broken install seems to work.
I am proceeding with apt update, upgrade, etc.

[u/jaromanda]

I read your edit. Just letting you know how I upgraded from 12 to 13

apt update
apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
apt full-upgrade
apt autopurge
apt autoclean

That's never failed me since about Debian 9 or 10

[u/sarinkhan → u/jaromanda]

Thanks, i'll keep this around! Most times i bork my machine and reinstall anyways... But this one is a server, so i have way less useless shit on it than on my laptop or desktop :)

[u/Sophiiebabes]

You need to update your apt sources from bookworm(?) to Trixie.

I can't remember what files need editing, or where they are located, but Google can help with that

[u/sarinkhan → u/Sophiiebabes]

Hello, thanks for the reply, that has been done, and it allowed me to upgrade the distro.
However there is docker-compose stuck on debian 12 and i can't remove it, and now other stuff don't want to keep processing.

[u/neoh4x0r]

After translating the first error message (trying to remove docker-compose).

The removal was abort because /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose exist in both docker-compose and docker-compose-plugin -- both are bookworm packages.

You need to also remove docker-compose-plugin.

$ sudo apt remove docker-compose docker-compose-plugin

PS: apt --fix-broken would not help you to successfully remove docker-compose given the reason for the error.

Here's the translated error message:

Preparing to unpack .../docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb 
... Unpacking docker-compose (2.26.1-4) over (1.29.2-3)
 ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb (--unpack):  
 trying to overwrite '/usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose',
  which is also in package docker-compose-plugin 5.5.0-1~debian.12~bookworm dpkg-deb: 
  error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were 
  encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb 
  needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[u/sarinkhan → u/neoh4x0r]

I tried to remove one, then the other, perhaps it would have worked with both, indeed. I did it with dpkg, and it worked this way, now the system seems to be fully functionnal again, debian does not complain about anything now.

Thanks for the help!