On Sunday 25 May 2014 05:40:36 you wrote:
On 25/05/14 13:14, Michele Calgaro wrote:
Time to upgrade my main Wheezy install to R14. This went simply, flawlessly and quickly:
Thanks David, this is a very useful email. I think it will be an excellent starting point for a wiki page about 'how to upgrade to v14.0.0'.
Cheers Michele
Pleased to help, since Debian is my OS of choice and TDE my DE of choice.
Some will disagree. The issue of major upgrades in X has been thrashed 1001 times. My suggestions are based on experience of maintaining all flavours of Debian since Sarge (and the mistakes learned!)
Another observation: If you use another DE (I use also xfce), post-upgrade you might want to run "update-alternatives --all" to make sure everything is how you want it. Here xfce had taken over a few (e.g. x-terminal-emulator). Available choices are mostly obvious and simple to adjust.
hal-trinity libqt3-mt were marked as "automatically installed and are no longer required" Can someone please confirm they can be safely purged?
Debian Squeeze LTS: apt-get -s purge libqt3-mt: The following packages will be REMOVED: basket-kontact-integration-trinity* kdepim-trinity* kleopatra-trinity* kmail-trinity* kmailcvt-trinity* kontact-trinity* libavahi-qt3-1* libdbus-qt-1-1c2* libpoppler-qt2* libqt-perl* libqt3-mt* pinentry-qt* qca-tls* tdepim-trinity*
libavahi-qt3-1 unused removed.
Someone else did mention what I forgot: do a backup before any major upgrade!
David
I do not normally upgrade from an X session, should this be the Trinity position ? I have not, probably will not, test gui package managers, though asking users to exit X (ctl+alt+F?), stoping the X session, seems iffy for most folks I know.
For those who boot to a grub screen selecting the 'recovery mode' is a good option for using the cli to upgrade. I was suprised how well my upgrade went using a terminal my TDE DE, lucky or a viable option?
? 1. click on the Konsole icon