Updating Software Repositories

[Perzival12]

On 7/11/2025 at 10:40 PM, zyli said:

I now understand that you prefer PureOS because it's "Pure."
I was surprised that you were interested in flatpak – on the one hand, "Pure" and on the other, flatpak – but let's leave that aside.

I’m only using FlatPak because it seems to be newer than the PureOS repositories.

On 7/11/2025 at 10:40 PM, zyli said:

Just because Pure hasn't released an updated ISO image for two and a half years doesn't mean they're not doing anything.
I looked at their repositories: https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/pool/main/ 
You can see that they're releasing newer packages there:
https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/pool/main/b/base-files/

There's also 0ad:
https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/pool/main/0/0ad/

Therefore, I suspect you didn't read the PureOS documentation about how to update releases.
PureOS is based on Debian, and I suspect it also uses Debian release codenames. You're probably stuck on Bullseye – hence the version 0.23.0 available.

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/0ad 

I would try this:

I would check the entries in the '/etc/apt/sources.list' file – if the word 'bullseye' is there, that's the cause.

In that case, you should update sequentially: bullseye -> bookworm -> trixie, rather than straight to trixie.

But to be sure, I would read the PureOS documentation.

If this update were successful, I would download three files: 0ad, 0ad-data, and 0ad-data-common (version 0.27.1-3 from Debian trixie-backports):
https://packages.debian.org/trixie-backports/0ad

and I would install them manually (dpkg -i file.deb).

I would then have the latest 0ad for PureOS – but this is just my guess, as I've never used PureOS.

In summary – first, issue the following commands:
cat /etc/os-release
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Regarding your question, I believe there are currently no Linux distributions that meet Richard Stallman's rules.
Which distribution doesn't use proprietary firmware?

Best regards

Postscriptum
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PureOS does not use Debian's code names, but its own: Amber, Byzantium, Crimson, and Dawn.
https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/dists/
Dawn is probably the equivalent of Debian's sid (perpetually unstable).
So you need to read up on it.
My guess: you have Amber, but you should have Crimson.
Check it out.

Thank you so much for the guide, I’ll try it and let you know how it works out. Thanks!

[zyli]

Before you start experimenting, back up your important data, or better yet, create a system image using Clonezilla.
From what I've seen, the PuerOS documentation is very poor, and there's no information about updating releases—you have to guess.
So either they didn't bother to write it or there's something wrong with the updates.
Or maybe I was looking in the wrong place?

In either case, be careful.

Good luck.
Regards.