[SOLVED] mx linux upgrade path

saumen · 10-21-2018, 09:56 AM

Hi I absolutely love mx and suggested it to many people,but what is missing is a reliable upgrade path.would mx devs care to provide a upgrade path when buster based mx is out?

fatmac · 10-22-2018, 09:29 AM

Surely apt-get update/apt-get upgrade/apt-get dist-upgrade works, as it's based on Debian(?)

From memory, it has an update app, that shows when new updates are available, so that you can keep your system up to date.

saumen · 10-22-2018, 09:36 AM

dont think so...if mx changes base (I mean stretch to buster)then upgrade dont work for the change of debian base.I have requested for upgrade path when buster based Mx will come out.I want to upgrade mx-17 to next release when buster comes out.sorry if the reply sounds dumb there was no upgrade path when mx changed base jessy to stretch

fatmac · 10-22-2018, 12:57 PM

You would normally update/upgrade, change your sources list to the new version, then dist-upgrade, if memory serves me right.

But, I keep a separate /home partition on my Debian based systems, so I just install the new system, keeping my /home intact.

saumen · 10-23-2018, 03:45 PM

thanks

ChuangTzu · 10-23-2018, 03:49 PM

https://mxlinux.org/migration

dolphin_oracle · 10-29-2018, 08:51 AM

there have been a lot of backend changes to the repos in the last year in an effort to accommodate an upgrade path between stretch and jessie.

So the best I can say here is "we will see".