deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged jessie main

After you finish upgrading to jessie, you might want to upgrade to ascii, which is the current Oldstable.

i would need to upgrade this laptop to jessie from debian wheezy.

here is the sources.llst

deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged jessie main
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates main
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged jessie-backports main

the following error is occureing when doing

sudo apt-get update

W: GPG error: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BB23C00C61FC752C
W: GPG error: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-security Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BB23C00C61FC752C
W: Failed to fetch http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dist … 4/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 54.36.142.183 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dist … 4/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 54.36.142.183 80]

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

What link is that?  What address are you using in your /ect/sources.list file?

the link to upgrade to Jessie is no longer accessible.

Please make it accessible,

Thanks.

The error when going directly from Wheezy to Devuan Jessie would be

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 : Breaks: gnome-bluetooth (< 3.8) but 3.4.2-1 is to be installed
 gnome-bluetooth : Depends: gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 (= 3.4.2-1) but 3.14.0-2 is to be installed
                   Depends: obexd-client but it is not going to be installed
 gnome-settings-daemon : Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-2 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: libpackagekit-glib2-14 but it is not going to be installed
 gsettings-desktop-schemas : Breaks: gnome-settings-daemon (< 3.10.0) but 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3+deb7u3 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

So it seems more intelligent to update to Debian Jessie first, or to remove Gnome3 altogether and then upgrade directly to Devuan Jessie (and skipping Debian Jessie altogether)?

W: GPG error: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BB23C00C61FC752C
W: GPG error: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-security Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BB23C00C61FC752C

apt install devuan-keyring
And say 'yes' to the scary warning.

W: Failed to fetch http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

Remove jessie-updates and jessie-backports from your sources. They no longer exist.

in a post on FDN:

Jessie support is now handled by the LTS team rather than Security team. You should be OK until June 30, 2020.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Evidently June 6 is not a hard cutoff date for jessie so we have a little breathing room.

Thanks! I forgot about that - 2020.
(posted from devuan jessie)

golinux wrote:

KDE is available as an option -

Is the same command needed as with Debian?

aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$   ?

Yes but you only need the second part, task-desktop is a dependency of task-kde-desktop.

Do it now if you're going to do it. You have about a week before jessie is retired. I heard that july 6 is the projected date.

I was in a bit of a panic over this date but then found this nugget in a post on FDN:

Evidently June 6 is not a hard cutoff date for jessie so we have a little breathing room.

If that's the aptitude equivalent of apt-get install task-desktop task-kde-desktop then it should work.

Thanks ,

i might try that out sometime later.

with a fresh install on Devuan Ascii (Graphical Install) the KDE would not install alongside XFCE. It did abort when choosing both options.
Only choosing default install would install normally.

golinux wrote:

KDE is available as an option -

Is the same command needed as with Debian?

aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$   ?

Thanks

If that's the aptitude equivalent of apt-get install task-desktop task-kde-desktop then it should work.