Re: [Trisquel-users] Updating to Trisquel 8.0 without reinstalling…

[veganix]

You can also dist-upgrade to Flidas - but please ONLY try this on a spare  
partition or machine, as lots of things will be unstable or broken. I started  
with Belenos Mini, changed sources.list to flidas and did a dist-upgrade.  
After reboot i had no graphical login and was not able to run startx. There  
was no lightdm in the flidas repo at the time, so i temporarily added ubuntu  
xenial main/universe to sources.list and pulled lightdm from there. I also  
installed Mate, but had to pull yelp and mate-user-guide from ubuntu. After  
this, i removed the ubuntu repo. At the moment apt-get and Synaptic are  
giving various errors, but are mostly working. A lot of my usual software  
choices are still missing, but the Mate desktop is working fine. There is no  
Abrowser or IceCat yet, so i'm posting this from QupZilla:) You can of course  
also get IceCat from http://jenkins.trisquel.info/ or  
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/. Happy hacking!