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cs_thebigboss

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Registered: 2019-03-30

Posts: 4  

Last Lxqt on stable

Hiii...well basiclly that...Is it possible to install the last version of lxqt (0.14.1) on stable?

dxrobertson

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Registered: 2017-05-04

Posts: 232  

Re: Last Lxqt on stable

You can change your sources.list to point to beowulf/testing, and try an install of lxqt with the apt -s simulate option.  This will show what would be installed, without actually doing the install.  If you are satisfied with whats going to happen, then perform the actual install, from testing.  Then change your sources.list back to stable.  I have done this in the past with success.  But it can depend on how far off the differences are between stable and testing, which at this around 2 years for stable can be significant. 

Another option is to upgrade your system to testing.  Many are running from testing, myself included, without issues; it seems to be stable.

Change sources.list:

deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main non-free contrib
deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main non-free contrib
deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main non-free contrib

update to point to testing:

apt update

"Simulate" lxqt install from testing:

apt -s install lxqt

If output of the simulate seems to be reasonable, install lxqt:

apt install lxqt

Then change sources.list back to stable.

This procedure is not standard practice, please accept responsibility if things dont go so well.

cs_thebigboss

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Registered: 2019-03-30

Posts: 4  

Re: Last Lxqt on stable

Thanks for the answer. Finally I stopped wasting time and intalled beowulf xD.