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?
Someone else did mention what I forgot: do a backup before any major upgrade!
David