Guide to convert 19.1 antiX to ‘sid’

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Is there a guide around that I can read & follow for converting antiX19.1 Base to ‘sid’ (unstable). The past few times I’ve looked (unsuccessfully) and tried (unsuccessfully) things did not work out well for me…

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by manyroads.

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No guide available – but what did you do and what failed.

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Assuming you haven’t any third party repos and you haven’t installed a desktop-environment.

1. Change the repos to only point to sid/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list.d ie antix.list and debian.list
2. Disable the other repos ie debian-stable-updates.list, onion.list and various.list
3. apt update
3.1 apt purge fbsplash-antix (otherwise you get errors)
4. apt dist-upgrade
5. Read or post the output to see if anything critical will get removed.
6. If there are any ‘broken’ packages do apt -f install
7. Reboot after upgrades have finished.

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Thank you. I’ll give it another try and see what I come up with. In the end, I’ll provide a summary of what seems to work for me and people can comment/ edit/ use it.

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So here is what I did and am working with. So far it seems like a good transition although I am getting a lengthy delay (about 1 minute) on boot while the system hunts and sets up eth0 which I don’t use. Anyway, here are the steps I followed.

Note: base antiX19.1 root password is: demo

1. Change the repos to only point to sid/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list.d ie antix.list and debian.list
2. Disable the other repos ie debian-stable-updates.list, onion.list and various.list
3. sudo apt update
4. sudo apt purge fbsplash-antix (otherwise you get errors)
5. sudo apt dist-upgrade
5. Read or post the output to see if anything critical will get removed.
--- take all defaults
--- allow auto restart of services
6. If there are any ‘broken’ packages do apt -f install
7. Reboot after upgrades have finished.
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Next steps...
upgrade kernel to 5.2.21 antiX

Reboot

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@manyroads:
you wrote:
I am getting a lengthy delay (about 1 minute) on boot while the system hunts and sets up eth0 which I don’t use

Go in ceni and hit remove for the eth0 config and exit then the delay won’t happen anymore.
Mine is running the 5.4.7 kernel no problems from a core-19.1 pointed at sid on my Dell D830 here.

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Thank you… I’ll give ceni a go once I get back to building my ‘arrangement’. 😉

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