hey there, good people . . .
this is a pretty lame question; fortunately, i'm old enough that lame doesn't bother me all that much anymore.
it's been awhile since i burned a kernel, built open office from source, or built kde -- the way we used to, say, 15 years ago (i even once wrote a piece about whether it took longer to compile all of kde than it did to drive from connecticut to key west -- http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3420/1 ).
so now there's a new version of the real, useful kde, now known as tde. i'm on ubuntu 12.04LTS. time to do a general upgrade.
what i'm seeking is advice as to the easiest, least-annoying way to upgrade both operating system and tde -- i'm using 3.5.13.2 -- without breaking, well, anything. i've kept the same configurations for ages. i like them. many took days to sort out and i forgot how i did them.
so. anyone here have a decent recipe for upgrading the whole thing all at once, rebooting, and having what i have, only better?
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On 2014/12/18 01:47 AM, dep wrote:
hey there, good people . . .
this is a pretty lame question; fortunately, i'm old enough that lame doesn't bother me all that much anymore.
it's been awhile since i burned a kernel, built open office from source, or built kde -- the way we used to, say, 15 years ago (i even once wrote a piece about whether it took longer to compile all of kde than it did to drive from connecticut to key west -- http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3420/1 ).
so now there's a new version of the real, useful kde, now known as tde. i'm on ubuntu 12.04LTS. time to do a general upgrade.
what i'm seeking is advice as to the easiest, least-annoying way to upgrade both operating system and tde -- i'm using 3.5.13.2 -- without breaking, well, anything. i've kept the same configurations for ages. i like them. many took days to sort out and i forgot how i did them.
so. anyone here have a decent recipe for upgrading the whole thing all at once, rebooting, and having what i have, only better?
Hi there, I am currently testing upgrading on Debian/Wheezy (ok, it's not Ubuntu 12.04 but a reasonable relative) so to find an easy and painless way to upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to R14.0.0. Once I complete testing, I will upgrade the installation instructions on the wiki and report back to the ML. Testing is somehow slow due to the limited bandwidth for package downloading, so you may as well way a little more until I complete the test.
Based on reports from another user (Mike Bird - thanks Mike!), this seems to be the easiest way so far (at least in Debian/Wheezy):
apt-get update apt-get install tde-trinity apt-get dist-upgrade
Cheers Michele
On Thursday 18 of December 2014 03:14:27 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 2014/12/18 01:47 AM, dep wrote:
hey there, good people . . .
this is a pretty lame question; fortunately, i'm old enough that lame doesn't bother me all that much anymore.
it's been awhile since i burned a kernel, built open office from source, or built kde -- the way we used to, say, 15 years ago (i even once wrote a piece about whether it took longer to compile all of kde than it did to drive from connecticut to key west -- http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3420/1 ).
so now there's a new version of the real, useful kde, now known as tde. i'm on ubuntu 12.04LTS. time to do a general upgrade.
what i'm seeking is advice as to the easiest, least-annoying way to upgrade both operating system and tde -- i'm using 3.5.13.2 -- without breaking, well, anything. i've kept the same configurations for ages. i like them. many took days to sort out and i forgot how i did them.
so. anyone here have a decent recipe for upgrading the whole thing all at once, rebooting, and having what i have, only better?
Hi there, I am currently testing upgrading on Debian/Wheezy (ok, it's not Ubuntu 12.04 but a reasonable relative) so to find an easy and painless way to upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to R14.0.0. Once I complete testing, I will upgrade the installation instructions on the wiki and report back to the ML. Testing is somehow slow due to the limited bandwidth for package downloading, so you may as well way a little more until I complete the test.
Based on reports from another user (Mike Bird - thanks Mike!), this seems to be the easiest way so far (at least in Debian/Wheezy):
apt-get update apt-get install tde-trinity apt-get dist-upgrade
Cheers Michele
I must say: If the user during the previous installation carefully selected packages to be installed, the proposed procedure causes installation of large amount of different packages that were previously not installed!
If the user wants to "really upgrade" only what had installed previously, I recommend the classic upgrade procedure:
apt-get update aptitude dist-upgrade
I emphasize: For "really upgrade" use aptitude instead of apt-get, to avoid conflict during the upgrade. Alternatively, you can also use the extra option --without-recommends to avoid unwanted installation of recommended packages.
On Thursday 18 December 2014 03.14:27 Michele Calgaro wrote:
apt-get update apt-get install tde-trinity apt-get dist-upgrade
I used this on my wheezy install (install tde-trinity when Tim announced14R, then dist-upgrade yesterday).
Very slow servers (many updates?) but seems to give a working 14.0; The OP wants to update the OS too however. I did not try that if it means a change in OS version.
Thierry
Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2014 schrieb dep:
hey there, good people . . .
this is a pretty lame question; fortunately, i'm old enough that lame doesn't bother me all that much anymore.
it's been awhile since i burned a kernel, built open office from source, or built kde -- the way we used to, say, 15 years ago (i even once wrote a piece about whether it took longer to compile all of kde than it did to drive from connecticut to key west -- http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3420/1 ).
so now there's a new version of the real, useful kde, now known as tde. i'm on ubuntu 12.04LTS. time to do a general upgrade.
what i'm seeking is advice as to the easiest, least-annoying way to upgrade both operating system and tde -- i'm using 3.5.13.2 -- without breaking, well, anything. i've kept the same configurations for ages. i like them. many took days to sort out and i forgot how i did them.
so. anyone here have a decent recipe for upgrading the whole thing all at once, rebooting, and having what i have, only better?
Hi!
I just did an upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to 14.0.0 on my old debian wheezy:
# service kde-trinity stop; apt-get update; aptitude dist-upgrade
It took ~ 6 hours, but everything went smooth. Just keep in mind to upgrade from a console e.g. <ctrl>+<alt>+<F1> and not from within TDE. All setting were kept and everything works as expected.
Thanks for good work :-)
Nik
hello,
a related question: is it possible to do an upgrade using the iso downloaded to say a usb thumbdrive?
F.
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hello,
a related question: is it possible to do an upgrade using the iso downloaded to say a usb thumbdrive?
F.
Unfortunately no, it isn't. The LiveCD installer basically writes out the filesystem from the ISO onto a newly formatted disk; to upgrade an existing installation requires the original .deb files which are not present on the ISO image.
Tim
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Timothy Pearson wrote:
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hello,
a related question: is it possible to do an upgrade using the iso downloaded to say a usb thumbdrive?
F.
Unfortunately no, it isn't. The LiveCD installer basically writes out the filesystem from the ISO onto a newly formatted disk; to upgrade an existing installation requires the original .deb files which are not present on the ISO image.
Tim
ok, I understand fully.
F.
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