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Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:10:57 +0000

It's all actually a hella lot easier using Synaptic instead of typing sudo over and over again.

Synaptic
reload
mark all upgrades, apply
search for usrmerge, mark for installation, apply
close and reboot
alter sources.list
Synaptic
reload
mark all upgrades, apply
close and reboot
done.

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (RedGreen925) — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:54:09 +0000

7. sudo apt upgrade

That should be sudo apt full-upgrade or the older now depreciated sudo apt dist-upgrade to use the command to upgrade a distribution properly to the next one coming.

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (Defender) — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:42:26 +0000

I was successful upgrading. Thanks for the Clues above. For the benefit of someone looking for a how to upgrade to excalibur, the steps were:
1. Install current Devuan
2. sudo apt update
3. as root edit /etc/default/grub to uncomment os prober disable (or grub won't generate for other OS partitions)
3. sudo apt upgrade
3a. sudo apt install usrmerge
4. log out and restart
5. as root edit /etc/apt/sources.list to comment out current Devuan and add line from above for excalibur
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
6. sudo apt update
7. sudo apt upgrade
8. test
9. log out and restart

Its working...

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (stopAI) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:06:07 +0000

but seriously can someone please fix this pipewire? We using bash scripts to start it, it will blow up someday. I tried to start it up via sysvinit, but couldn't succeed.

Hello. For auto starting pipewire, you can use desktop (or window manager) auto starting mechanism.

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (recklessswing) — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:16:37 +0000

Ok thanks got on testing, so far so good but seriously can someone please fix this pipewire? We using bash scripts to start it, it will blow up someday. I tried to start it up via sysvinit, but couldn't succeed.

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:01:41 +0000

What rolfie said. Gotta install merge before you do anything, and after installing it I always re-boot just to be safe. Then I edit sources.list and start the process.

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:42:51 +0000

not 100% sure but i guess the problem is before upgrading from daedalus to excalibur you will need to install the usrmerge package.

and on excalibur you just have one line active in your sources.list:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (recklessswing) — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:36:52 +0000

I tried doing that but then this happens:

1 dk. 8 sn.'de 3.001 MB alındı (44,2 MB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: news for devuananapc
Paketlerdeki ileti şablonları çıkarılıyor: 100%
Paketler önyapılandırılıyor ...
setting xserver-xorg-legacy/xwrapper/allowed_users from configuration file
(Veritabanı okunuyor ... 413721 dosya veya dizin kurulu durumda.)
Paket açılacak: .../base-files_13.7devuan1_amd64.deb ...

******************************************************************************
*
* The base-files package cannot be installed because
* /bin is a directory, but should be a symbolic link.
*
* Please install the usrmerge package to convert this system to merged-/usr.
*
* For more information please read https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge.
*
******************************************************************************

dpkg: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_13.7devuan1_amd64.deb arşivi işlenirken sorun yaşandı (--unpack):
yeni base-files paketi pre-installation betiği alt süreci 1 hatalı çıkış kodu ile sona erdi
İşleme sırasında hatalarla karşılaşıldı:
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_13.7devuan1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 22:07:04 +0000

I can't read most of that, but I know what it's tellilng you. Excalibur is still the Testing suite, so there is no -security or -updates repos. Those won't exist until excalibur is officially released as Stable. Comment them out for now.

How to upgrade to devuan testing?

dummy@example.com (recklessswing) — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:48:20 +0000

I've written excalibur instead of daedalus in /etc/apt/sources.list but there nothing happens? It throws some errors:
E: 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates Release' deposunda Release dosyası yok.
N: Böyle bir depodan güvenli bir şekilde güncelleme yapılamaz, bu nedenle depo devre dışı bırakılmıştır.
N: Depo oluşturma ve kullanıcı yapılandırması hakkında ayrıntılı bilgi için apt-secure(8) rehber sayfasında bulunabilir.
E: 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security Release' deposunda Release dosyası yok.
N: Böyle bir depodan güvenli bir şekilde güncelleme yapılamaz, bu nedenle depo devre dışı bırakılmıştır.
N: Depo oluşturma ve kullanıcı yapılandırması hakkında ayrıntılı bilgi için apt-secure(8) rehber sayfasında bulunabilir.