#1 2020-06-04 10:59:45

heart1010

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Registered: 2015-10-16

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[SOLVED] Upgrade my Bunsen installation

Hi,

my son want to use our old laptop to get his first computer experience - so I thought I update this laptop to the latest (possible) bunsen version which runs on this laptop.

So I think I'm running the first bunselabs version, was it hydrogen? Below are some outputs from the terminal.

So the question is how can I update this machine to the latest version?

Helium is the latest one, correct? So should I only change the apt sources.list and add

deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian helium main

...this isn't enough, is it?

Thanks for your help.

heart@laptop:~$ bl-pkg-versions 
Package                        apt version  git version 

bunsen-common                  8.9.2-1                  
bunsen-configs                 8.8.11-1.1               
bunsen-conky                   8.3.1-2                  
bunsen-docs                    8.1-2                    
bunsen-faenza-icon-theme       8.2-1                    
bunsen-images                  8.7-1                    
bunsen-keyring                 2019.01.19+bl8-1             
bunsen-meta-all                8.0-5                    
bunsen-os-release              8.9-1                    
bunsen-pepperflash             8.0-1                    
bunsen-pipemenus               8.11.4-1                 
bunsen-themes                  8.3.1-2                  
bunsen-thunar                  8.0-1                    
bunsen-utilities               8.8.3-1                  
bunsen-welcome                 8.14.3-1                 
heart@laptop:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
8.11
heart@laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.51-2 (2017-12-03) i686 GNU/Linux

Last edited by heart1010 (2020-06-07 07:02:46)

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade my Bunsen installation

Easiest answer is to install our latest Lithium build instead, so that you're current with Debian Stable...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=6320

Only 64bit so far, but all the BL packages are 32bit compatible, so you can install Debian Buster 32bit and then install 'bunsen-meta-all'.

-edit- Sorry for the indirect answer. Yes, you can upgrade hydrogen to helium (and to lithium after that) but there are issues along the way. Yes, change your main BL source to 'helium' and your main Debian source to 'jessie', disable your other sources, run 'sudo apt upgrade' and then start a new thread so we can talk you through the damage. BTW, the damage should be minor, but you'll still be one release back from buster, which is why I suggest a re-install.

-edit2- You'll find primary sources (Debian) in /etc/apt/sources.list and secondary sources (like BunsenLabs) in the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

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heart1010

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Registered: 2015-10-16

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade my Bunsen installation

Ok - upgraded to Helium (Debian9) successfully!

Had to deal with a "no space left" on root partition problem in the middle of the dist-upgrade process but got it sorted O:)

After upgrading I've set the openbox GUI and the Userinterface to the Helium Theme and I think everything works and looks as it should 

Thanks again!

DeepDayze

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade my Bunsen installation

Good to hear you had success, enjoy!

Later on when you feel adventurous you can try to upgrade to Lithium

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