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RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

Posts: 151  

Re: Fresh install vs dist-upgrade for next release

I installed Debian in June 2004

I started with Woody in July of 2002 Google tells me for the release, or somewhere close to that as it was the first I used. It has been my experience in these past couple of decades that upgrading using the tools provided by Debian just works. Though now the dist-upgrade has been replaced by the full-upgrade which still does the same terrific job.

GlennW

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2019-07-18

Posts: 679  

Re: Fresh install vs dist-upgrade for next release

I tried a "apt dist-upgrade" (adding excalibur to my sources.list) to excalibur, but got stuck with usrmerge problems, like /bin is not a link...

I tried to correct that, the folders and contents copied to the relevant directories manually from another OS.

But that hack didn't work for me.

I had installed usrmerge before-hand in preparation but it never finished the install scripts, after --reconfig (dpkg --configure -a) a few times.

I don't know why, but I have read somewhere that usrmerge has problems with separate harddrive partitions for /usr. I generally have separate partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /tmp, /var, swap and /home

So I did a quick backup of /root and /etc and started a clean install.

I had to install seatd to get a login screen

I run kde, and found sddm virtual keyboard fullscreen... I'm using slim to keep the login screen neat looking

I wish there was an "accessabillity" toggle switch/meta package we could switch off all the brail, virtual keyboards and speaking tools from the install process.

But other than those 2 things, My system is running quite nicely, thank you for your efforts.

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