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recklessswing

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From: Türkiye

Registered: 2020-12-18

Posts: 125  

How to upgrade to devuan testing?

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.

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,564  

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

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.

recklessswing

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From: Türkiye

Registered: 2020-12-18

Posts: 125  

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

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)

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,240  

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

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

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

Posts: 782  

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Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

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.

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recklessswing

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From: Türkiye

Registered: 2020-12-18

Posts: 125  

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

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.

Last edited by recklessswing (2025-03-22 23:16:54)

stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

Posts: 215  

Re: How to upgrade to devuan testing?

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.