Hello,
Congratulations on a wonderful distro.
Can we upgrade to 7.2 final from preview 2 with Synaptic ?
The last couple of times I have updated via Synaptic, I get some errors on trying to update ivman. I have ignored them and have experienced no problems. Is this a problem I should correct?
Regards,
wlake
topic title: Update from 7.2 preview 2 ?
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wlakePosts: 7
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anticapitalista
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#2
Hi wlake.
Welcome to antiX.
You can sort of upgrade preview2 to final through upgrading apps via synaptic. What you don't get is the antiX configured changes in such things as wallpaper, icewm menu, etc. Nothing major. Everything else will bring antiX up-to-date.
About ivman, you could remove purge it and then re-install. It should be ok without errors.
Don't upgrade gxine though as it is broken now in Debian Testing.
See this thread:
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Welcome to antiX.
You can sort of upgrade preview2 to final through upgrading apps via synaptic. What you don't get is the antiX configured changes in such things as wallpaper, icewm menu, etc. Nothing major. Everything else will bring antiX up-to-date.
About ivman, you could remove purge it and then re-install. It should be ok without errors.
Don't upgrade gxine though as it is broken now in Debian Testing.
See this thread:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"antix.freeforu ms.org/gxine-upgrade-t685.html"
linktext was:"antix.freeforu ms.org/gxine-upgrade-t685.html"
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wlakePosts: 7
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#3
Thanks for the quick reply.
I'll work on ivman.
Regards,
wlake
I'll work on ivman.
Regards,
wlake
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anticapitalista
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#4
I just tried an upgrade in synaptic from preview2 to final and the only problem was ivman. I removed and purged it then re-installed and all is fine. No errors.
You will note on reboot that extra items have been added to the grub menu list. Don't use them, use the original ones.
You will note on reboot that extra items have been added to the grub menu list. Don't use them, use the original ones.
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wlakePosts: 7
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#5
Yes,
I removed ivman, purged and re-installed ivman. I see the extra entries in grub you referred to. Thanks.
I am curious about one thing. What is the difference between installing AntiX 7.2 and deleting apps you don't want versus installing the base and adding apps?
I removed ivman, purged and re-installed ivman. I see the extra entries in grub you referred to. Thanks.
I am curious about one thing. What is the difference between installing AntiX 7.2 and deleting apps you don't want versus installing the base and adding apps?
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anticapitalista
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Good question.
With installing the base you decide what is installed from the outset (well, almost) and you get a base install of approximately 600MB. You are basically in control, you can decide on whether to base you distro on Debian Testing/Lenny (default) or use Unstable/Sid. You can also decide what desktop environment you want ie KDE, gnome, xfce and build on it.
The 'full' antiX takes up about double the space ie about 1.2GB installed and removing apps you don't need/want has the advantage of at least fluxbox and icewm being already configured for you.
With installing the base you decide what is installed from the outset (well, almost) and you get a base install of approximately 600MB. You are basically in control, you can decide on whether to base you distro on Debian Testing/Lenny (default) or use Unstable/Sid. You can also decide what desktop environment you want ie KDE, gnome, xfce and build on it.
The 'full' antiX takes up about double the space ie about 1.2GB installed and removing apps you don't need/want has the advantage of at least fluxbox and icewm being already configured for you.