Thank you VERY much. After dealing with an unrelated WIndows/hardware issue and shutting down my PC then restarting it, I re-tried going into the MX VM and running "sudo apt update" and this time it worked (with some unrelated errors)!
Now that it has updated its indexes, I am trying to follow the instructions here: https://mxlinux.org/migration/ and have a question about how best to upgrade:
Is there documented anywhere a specific sequence of steps (and the proper sequence) I should take? [Do I run "sudo apt upgrade", use MX Package Installer, and/or use Synaptic Package Manager?]
Thanks again!
Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x [SOLVED]
Re: Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x
Tried sudo apt upgrade. Ran OK, I think. Then read about distro-upgrade. Tried that. Seemed to run OK, but it deleted LOTS of things I was using (I think). Upon reboot, no window manager, just command line.
Reverted to older snapshot (17.1). What did I do wrong?
Reverted to older snapshot (17.1). What did I do wrong?
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Re: Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x
are you using autoremove? please post the output of the dist-upgrade but don't proceed with it.ardee wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 2:12 pm Tried sudo apt upgrade. Ran OK, I think. Then read about distro-upgrade. Tried that. Seemed to run OK, but it deleted LOTS of things I was using (I think). Upon reboot, no window manager, just command line.
Reverted to older snapshot (17.1). What did I do wrong?
there was an issue with nvidia-drivers once-upon-a-time, but I thought we had that sorted.
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
Re: Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x
Dear dolphin_oracle, here's what it says:
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$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libllvm3.9
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bubblewrap cryptsetup-modified-functions desktop-defaults-mx-applications
desktop-defaults-mx-common flatpak fuseiso libappstream-glib8 libdrm-common libegl-mesa0 libegl1
libgcab-1.0-0 libgl1 libgles1 libgles2 libglvnd-core-dev libglvnd-dev libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0
libglx0 libhunspell-1.6-0 libllvm7 libnss-mdns libopengl0 libostree-1-1 libwayland-egl1
mx-repo-list python-bs4 python-css-parser smplayer-l10n xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
The following packages will be upgraded:
calibre cli-shell-utils desktop-defaults-xfce-mx17 libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1
libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libwayland-egl1-mesa libxatracker2 lightning
mesa-common-dev mx-packageinstaller mx-repo-manager mx-system smplayer thunderbird
25 upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 99.2 MB/99.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 124 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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Re: Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x
that seems safe enough. but ifyou want to check a simulation first, at a "-s" to your apt-get command.
you don't even need sudo with -s, because it won't do anything but give you some output on what would happen.
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apt-get -s dist-upgrade
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lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
Re: Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x
MX 17 to 18 is not really a distro upgrade like Debian 8 to 9, since it's still on the Debian 9 base, so just the normal apt upgrade process is fine.
You probably don't really need to upgrade the kernel except for security concerns.
You probably don't really need to upgrade the kernel except for security concerns.
Re: Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x
But "apt upgrade" command won't: update any packages where dependency requirements mean:
1. additional packages have to be installed,
2. some old packages have to be removed in order to be replaced by a new dependant package.
There is at least 1 additional package in recent memory that is supposed to be installed for normal updates, e.g fuse-iso
That's why MX Updater uses "apt full-upgrade" command.
1. additional packages have to be installed,
2. some old packages have to be removed in order to be replaced by a new dependant package.
There is at least 1 additional package in recent memory that is supposed to be installed for normal updates, e.g fuse-iso
That's why MX Updater uses "apt full-upgrade" command.
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Clevo N130WU-based Ultrabook: Intel i7-8550U (Kaby Lake R), 16GB RAM, Intel integrated graphics (UEFI)
ASUS X42D laptop: AMD Phenom II, 6GB RAM, Mobility Radeon HD 5400
Re: Errors trying to upgrade 17.x to 18.x
Thanks for all the help. Ultimately MX Updater did work and all is well.