Hello,

First, a big thank you to all of the Devuan developers and also to David Hare for Exe GNU/Linux.  Some family members and I use both Devuan and Exe GNU/Linux as "daily drivers," and we are most grateful.

I am hoping to upgrade a system that is currently running Exe GNU/Linux Daedalus to Excalibur.  I've successfully done an upgrade from plain Devuan Daedalus to Excalibur before, so I am hoping the process is basically the same for Exe GNU/Linux.

My plan is to alter the /etc/apt/sources.list and the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ as follows, and then follow the instructions at https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … -excalibur , of course making sure to diligently perform the usrmerge step before anything else.

1. Change the main /etc/apt/sources.list file to switch from daedalus to excalibur (some extra commented lines left out for clarity).

## /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main non-free-firmware
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main non-free-firmware
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main non-free-firmware

2. Change /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tde.list similarly (some extra commented lines left out for clarity).

## /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tde.list
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x excalibur deps main
#deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x daedalus main deps

## [New in Exe GNU/Linux Excalibur]
# Trinity preliminary stable builds
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb excalibur deps-r14 main-r14

A HUGE question I have is: How necessary is the entry

# Trinity preliminary stable builds
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb excalibur deps-r14 main-r14

in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tde.list? I see it in a VM installtion of Exe GNU/Linux Excalibur. The Daedalus installation does not have a corresponding entry. I'm not even 100% certain what Preliminary Stable Builds exactly are (https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Prelimi … ble_Builds) and what the pros and cons may be? Does Exe Excalibur simply require them for specific versions of specific things and I shouldn't worry too much and just go with it?

I am planning to skip altogether

/etc/apt/sources/lists.d/freesh.sources

(which I see in a fresh VM installation of Exe GNU/Linux Excalibur) as I don't think I need it. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I am also skipping librewolf.list (I am not using LibreWolf) and basically ignoring exegnu.list (every entry of that file is commented out and I've never had reason to uncomment them--I will probably add the commented excalibur line just for completeness' sake).

I just wanted to run all of this this past the members of this forum and make sure these steps look correct. Did I miss anything? Has anyone else done this upgrade and have any advice? Thank you all!