25 May
2014
25 May
'14
4:23 p.m.
On Sunday 25 May 2014 05:40:36 you wrote:
On 25/05/14 13:14, Michele Calgaro wrote:
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.
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
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
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Peace,
Greg