If you have an intel graphics chip upgrading antiX will bring in a new xorg that is very likely to cause problems. So far, nvidia and ati seems to be ok with upgrading.

If you have intel chip, best not to upgrade xorg. (unless someone here knows how to fix the problem).

If you upgrade, you may get an error with wicd. Simply remove it and re-install
#apt-get purge wicd
#apt-get install wicd

You may be informed that gecko-mediaplayer, gmplayer, mplayer etc will be removed.
Getting them back may need a little bit of work. (gmplayer gets installed, but gives an error when opening). If that happens try,

#apt-get purge ffmpeg
#aptitude install ffmpeg
#apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer

Edit: I forgot that you will also need to install xinit.

Thanks for the heads up. I have a intel graphics chip in my Asus EEE
I already did a upgrade. Got the wicd error. But it didn't hurt wicd or my wireless. I didn;t get the

You may be informed that gecko-mediaplayer, gmplayer, mplayer etc will be removed.

Maybe because I haven't messed with stock sources.lst. I did my upgrade about 4 days ago also. Is this thread having to do with maybe a newer upgrade that 4 days ago maybe?

I think a normal apt-get upgrade won't have any issues since it holds back the xorg. But apt-get dist-upgrade would upgrade xorg and remove mplayer.

1. On Acer Aspire One (AA1) 1GB RAM & 150GB harddisk running Linuxmint7gnome via fromiso or unetbootin, installs OK but then # aptitude update && full-upgrade gives the following:

479 packages upgraded, 53 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 28 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 213kB/280MB of archives. After unpacking 14.1MB will be used.
. . .
and errors about:
whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.52: file too short
debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up!
dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
libpam0g
. . . etc.
Unable to complete install or remove.

Thanks for all your work putting it together. I've not been lots of help,
but I keep following the progress of AntiX. I really like the idea of a distro
based on testing. sidux was fun but too rigid in the forum;
tracking testing is better. Still a great way to get to testing,
but I'm looking for another route.

2.
Tried antiX on another box, a P4 w/ 512 MB RAM.
Install fromiso went great, installed OK but had to login as root to change passwd,
then booted but the Icewm menu wasn't filled. I couldn't get a terminal except tty1.
Not really usable. Curious. md5sums checked OK.

Then installed from USB via unetbootin will only boot to tty1. Says no X is available.

3.
Reinstalled on the AA1 (semi-desktop) from #1 and only ran # aptitude upgrade.
So far so good. Still get the whiptail error but installed the things I wanted.

regards,
Richard.

PS: Hope the livelihood aspects are looking up for you. rh.

anticapitalista wrote: #apt-get install media-geckoplayer

thanks anti for the tips. i think this is the right command:

#apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer

i resolved the mplayer error by installing mplayer from stable, and put it on hold. it worked the same.

edit: in the last mplayer i can't see the subtitles or osd.
solved it by adding a line:
fontconfig=1
to ~/.mplayer/config

Hello

Is there a method to upgrade from M8 to M8-2 without reinstalling everything with the CD ?

Are

apt-get update
apt-get-upgrade

suficient ?

Thanks

From 8.0 to latest is well over 450MB of downloads.
If you want to go for it, then I suggest waiting a few days so I can update the antiX-upgrader script and you can use that.

If all you want is for your apps to be up to date (ie not bothered by newer ones included in later release of antiX)
then you should be ok with:

#aptitude update
#aptitude dist-upgrade

(and choose the first option)

You will get errors at boot about .conf, but that can be fixed easily (it doesn't affect anything) and to get to use fast-boot insserv, you'll need to follow a few extra steps.

anticapitalista wrote:From 8.0 to latest is well over 450MB of downloads.
If you want to go for it, then I suggest waiting a few days so I can update the antiX-upgrader script and you can use that....

Hello

I prefer this solution.

Thanks

Pierre771.

Download the antiXupgrader3.sh script, make it executable and run as root.


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.mepisimo.com/antix/antiX-upgrader8.0-8.2"
linktext was:"http://www.mepisimo.com/antix/antiX-upgrader8.0-8.2"
====================================
" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false

Make sure the Mepis repos are working ok.
I have tested this several times on a fresh install of antiX-M8 and it has worked.
To be safe make a backup of what you already have and of your important files.

I haven't altered the menu so you will see the new apps under the Applictions/full fluxbox section.

At the end of the upgrade, you should have antiX-M8 totally up to date and using fast boot.
Don't worry about the .conf errors, we can fix tham afer (they don't affect anything anyway)

Good luck.

Thanks very much. Sorry but what is the"Mepis repos" ?

Mepis repos are the ones in /etc/apt/sources.list

Sometimes, when using apt-get, they are slow and fail to download properly.
If this happens, then the script will fail. (You'll have to run it again)

OK

The script was entirely executed.

I reboot...

I had an error when trying to reboot. I had to cut manually.

Now I am trying to boot. In a non-graphical screen, he asked me for user and password. OK

Then it asks for : pierre@(none):~$

What should I do please ? Thanks

startx

If you had nvidia drivers or ati ones, you'll need to re-install them.

Did you make the change to /etc/slim.conf as the script warns at the start?

Hello

I'll try to do it today.

I hope that in spite of these drivers I'll not obtain a black screen...

How can I modify slim.conf now as I no longer have any desktop manager ?

Thanks