On Sunday 25 May 2014 05:40:36 you wrote: > On 25/05/14 13:14, Michele Calgaro wrote: > >> Time to upgrade my main Wheezy install to R14. This went simply, > >> flawlessly and quickly: > > > > Thanks David, > > this is a very useful email. > > I think it will be an excellent starting point for a wiki page > > about 'how to upgrade to v14.0.0'. > > > > Cheers > > Michele > > Pleased to help, since Debian is my OS of choice and TDE my DE of > choice. > > Some will disagree. The issue of major upgrades in X has been > thrashed 1001 times. My suggestions are based on experience of > maintaining all flavours of Debian since Sarge (and the mistakes > learned!) > > Another observation: If you use another DE (I use also xfce), > post-upgrade you might want to run "update-alternatives --all" to > make sure everything is how you want it. Here xfce had taken over a > few (e.g. x-terminal-emulator). Available choices are mostly obvious > and simple to adjust. > > hal-trinity libqt3-mt were marked as "automatically installed and are > no longer required" Can someone please confirm they can be safely > purged? Debian Squeeze LTS: apt-get -s purge libqt3-mt: The following packages will be REMOVED: basket-kontact-integration-trinity* kdepim-trinity* kleopatra-trinity* kmail-trinity* kmailcvt-trinity* kontact-trinity* libavahi-qt3-1* libdbus-qt-1-1c2* libpoppler-qt2* libqt-perl* libqt3-mt* pinentry-qt* qca-tls* tdepim-trinity* libavahi-qt3-1 unused removed. > > Someone else did mention what I forgot: do a backup before any major > upgrade! > > David I do not normally upgrade from an X session, should this be the Trinity position ? I have not, probably will not, test gui package managers, though asking users to exit X (ctl+alt+F?), stoping the X session, seems iffy for most folks I know. For those who boot to a grub screen selecting the 'recovery mode' is a good option for using the cli to upgrade. I was suprised how well my upgrade went using a terminal my TDE DE, lucky or a viable option? ? 1. click on the Konsole icon -- Peace, Greg