Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 16:04, john doe wrote: > > Any reasons why you want package from testing and not from Stretch > backports? > > because I didn't know Stretch backports existed - now I do. It seems to offer to the stability of the stretch destribution with the ability to upgrade certain packages to more up to date versions. Thanks for the tip!
Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing
On 11/14/2018 12:58 PM, Shane Dev wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded firmware-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso and successfully installed a > minimal debian stretch on my UEFI/GPT disk. I then I replaced all > references to "stretch" with "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list and > executed sudo apt update; sudo apt install gnome-core firefox-esr. > Any reasons why you want package from testing and not from Stretch backports? -- John Doe
Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing
Shane Dev wrote: ... > 3. Last time I tried apt upgrade, my grub menu was replaced with the grub > command prompted. If there any way to avoid this happening again? while testing has been fairly decent, once in a while there are issues you may have to resolve via other means. if you are new enough to linux and Debian i do not recommend using testing because once in a while you may be stuck. are you running this system and expecting it to always be available? what i do to make sure i have a booting system is that i keep a stable partition and i also keep a bootable USB stick. i did have to use these this past month or so. songbird
Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing
Shane Dev wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded firmware-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso and successfully installed a > minimal debian stretch on my UEFI/GPT disk. I then I replaced all > references to "stretch" with "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list and > executed sudo apt update; sudo apt install gnome-core firefox-esr. > Everything works as expected but I have the following questions which I > posted on the debian-testing mailing list. Since no-one answered, I thought > I would try here - apt update loads in new packages to your database; the apt install installed those particular packages and their dependencies. You now have a system which is mostly stretch and partially testing, and will become more testing over time. If you want to get everything to testing, do sudo apt dist-upgrade > 1. according to uname -r, I am running 4.9.0-7-amd64 which appears to be > the stretch kernel. Is it safe to run the stretch kernel with programs / > apps / utilities from testing? Yes. If a testing version needs a later kernel, that will be a dependency and it will be installed. (And you will need to reboot.) > 2. I noticed the intel-microcode package is not installed. If I install it, > could this testing version conflict with the stretch kernel? If it depends on a certain version, see above answer. > 3. Last time I tried apt upgrade, my grub menu was replaced with the grub > command prompted. If there any way to avoid this happening again? Not enough information to tell what happened. -dsr-
Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing
Hello, I downloaded firmware-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso and successfully installed a minimal debian stretch on my UEFI/GPT disk. I then I replaced all references to "stretch" with "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list and executed sudo apt update; sudo apt install gnome-core firefox-esr. Everything works as expected but I have the following questions which I posted on the debian-testing mailing list. Since no-one answered, I thought I would try here - 1. according to uname -r, I am running 4.9.0-7-amd64 which appears to be the stretch kernel. Is it safe to run the stretch kernel with programs / apps / utilities from testing? 2. I noticed the intel-microcode package is not installed. If I install it, could this testing version conflict with the stretch kernel? 3. Last time I tried apt upgrade, my grub menu was replaced with the grub command prompted. If there any way to avoid this happening again?
