Upgrade Point Release from "Jessie" to "Sid"

rudra · 2016-04-28 16:12:44

Hello Everyone, Was just wondering if this >> http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=16353 would work for BunsenLabs?

damo · 2016-04-28 16:46:12

Well, BL isn't Crunchbang, and that guide is years old

One user has posted his BL method here

You might also want to follow this thread: Tracking Debian testing/unstable with BunsenLabs - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

...and don't forget to use `apt-listbugs`!

nobody0 · 2016-04-28 17:56:50

rudra wrote:

Hello Everyone, Was just wondering if this >> http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=16353 would work for BunsenLabs?

Hello Rudra, if you have a look and follow the links both ways, you might get an idea how I did it. If you are not worried about some hiccups on the way, you can change jessie to sid in in /etc/apt/sources.list and update and upgrade your install. I went Waldorf > Jessie > Stretch > Sid.

Last edited by nobody0 (2016-04-28 17:57:27)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-28 18:38:31

rudra wrote:

Was just wondering if this >> http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=16353 would work for BunsenLabs?

No, the way APT preferences work has changed fundamentally since that guide was written, amongst other things (machinebacon talks about HAL, this went by the wayside many years ago).

Only use sid if you are comfortable with a system that may break at any moment without warning.

el_koraco · 2016-04-28 21:09:38

where is machinebacon, anyway?

Sector11 · 2016-04-28 21:19:15

^ hanging out at the BBQ last I saw.

rudra · 2016-05-02 02:21:19

Thank you everyone for all the help and guidance .. I am now officially on "stretch" got a little scared with all the horror stories related to "sid" so kinda decided to play it a little safe .. everything is fine as far as i can see .. my only problem is that my primary .conkyrc refuses to load while .conkyrc1 loads and works just fine

the terminal output is >>

rudra@kratos:~$ conky
conky: Syntax error (/home/rudra/.conkyrc:1: '=' expected near 'no') while reading config file. 
conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: [string "..."]:138: attempt to index local 'settings' (a nil value)

the conkyrc file itself looks like this (parameters for both conkyrc and conkyrc1 are the same):

background no
use_xft yes
xftfont Terminus:size=7.5
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 3.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 1250 5
maximum_width 1250
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_shade_color black
alignment top_middle
gap_x 0
gap_y 35
no_buffers yes
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
default_color  8f8f8f

TEXT
${alignc} Kernel: ${color e0e0e0}${kernel}${color} ~ ${color 1E90FF} ${nodename}${color} | Up-time: ${color e0e0e0} ${uptime}${color} | CPU - Avg: ${color e0e0e0} ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpugraph cpu0 8,120} ${color} - Core1: ${color e0e0e0} ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpugraph cpu1 8,120} ${color} - Core2: ${color e0e0e0} ${cpu cpu2}% ${cpugraph cpu2 9,120} ${color}  Ram: ${color e0e0e0}${memperc}% ${memgraph 8,120} ${color}
${alignc} Signal: ${color e0e0e0} ${wireless_link_qual wlan0}% ${color} Down: ${color e0e0e0} ${downspeed wlan0} ${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,120} ${color} Up: ${color e0e0e0} ${upspeed wlan0} ${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,120} ${color}  | World Time - TOK: ${color e0e0e0} ${tztime Asia/Tokyo %H:%M:%S} ${color} KYV: ${color 1E90FF} ${tztime Europe/Kiev %H:%M:%S} ${color} - GMT: ${color 1E90FF} ${tztime Etc/Greenwich %H:%M:%S} ${color} - EST: ${color e0e0e0} ${tztime America/New_York %H:%M:%S} ${color} - CST: ${color e0e0e0} ${tztime America/Chicago %H:%M:%S} ${color} - MST: ${color e0e0e0} ${tztime America/Phoenix %H:%M:%S} ${color} - PST: ${color e0e0e0} ${tztime America/Los_Angeles %H:%M:%S} ${color}

I am kinda stumpped here .. dont know whats happening.

Please help.

MOD EDIT:
Use code tags please.

Last edited by Sector11 (2016-05-02 03:06:41)

Sector11 · 2016-05-02 03:11:04

conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.

You are using a conky v1.9 format with conky v1.10. Can't help beyond that though I don't use v1.10

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-02 09:36:09

rudra wrote:

I am now officially on "stretch" got a little scared with all the horror stories related to "sid" so kinda decided to play it a little safe

I think the general concensus is that sid probably works better as a system than testing.

The trouble with testing is that if a broken package makes it into the repositories then it stays broken, sometimes for extended periods.

Experienced users will then start pulling the fixed (upstream) version from sid selectively [1]

During my brief time with Debian's development branches, I preferred to run pure sid with a repository line for the experimental sources to pull packages from there if the upstream versions were better (eg. Firefox) [2]

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … le_literal

[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … al_literal

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-02 10:04:43

Sector11 wrote:

conky v1.9 format with conky v1.10

@OP: regular API changes are all part of the testing/unstable experience so better get used to this sort of thing.

In Arch, I have to re-jig my configuration files regularly

rudra · 2016-05-05 15:17:07

Thank you all for you help and guidance .. latest update is that i broke my system and after 10 long hours of trying to recover X i gave up and came back to BunsenLabs (Jessie) as a fresh install though i did try my hand at Sabayon linux with Openbox by customizing their minimal install .. but I guess nothing really does it like Debian .. older non-bleeding edge software maybe but the dang thing just works with all that you want without any restrictions .. One man's meat is another man's poison I gather ... or I am just too lazy ..

On the other hand is there a possibility of BunsenLabs coming out with a minimal install disk with X to allow us and a base openbox system to allow the user to install what they like example would be slim instead of lightdm .. just an idea ..

Thank you again everyone for all the help and guidance ..

damo · 2016-05-05 15:30:50

rudra wrote:

...
On the other hand is there a possibility of BunsenLabs coming out with a minimal install disk with X to allow us and a base openbox system to allow the user to install what they like example would be slim instead of lightdm .. just an idea ..
Thank you again everyone for all the help and guidance ..

You can already do that with the Debian netinstall: install the base system, then install what you need. I can't see how it is possible for BL to produce something like that though, since every user's preferences would be different.

See the first part of: Bunsen-netinstall Script Wireless Walkthrough

Zill · 2016-05-05 20:01:00

rudra wrote:

... latest update is that i broke my system and after 10 long hours of trying to recover X i gave up and came back to BunsenLabs (Jessie) as a fresh install...
... but I guess nothing really does it like Debian .. older non-bleeding edge software maybe but the dang thing just works with all that you want without any restrictions.

... and through experience comes wisdom!

#1 2016-04-28 16:12:44

Upgrade Point Release from "Jessie" to "Sid"

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