[Solved]: How upgrade to new release?

[Member gypsygirl]

Hi!

I just found antix and its really fast, much faster than ubuntu!
Want to ask how do you do a release upgrade when it comes out from current to new major upgrade?
Or need reinstall everything?

Thanks 🙂

• This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by gypsygirl.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Brian Masinick. Reason: Solved

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Assuming you are running antiX as installed with the Debian Stable software you reinstall. It’s not necessary to “replace everything” because when you can choose the option to install without rewriting the entire system. You can retain the home directories by not repartitioning and wiping everything.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Brian Masinick.

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Brian Masinick

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Each version of antiX is supported for several years until the underlying Debian support expires, so you can easily use the same release for at least 3 years and typically~5 years.

For example antiX 17 is still widely used.

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[Member gypsygirl]

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Ok but i cant update like Debian with edit sources and then full upgrade?
I am using the stable version, was thinking about rolling releases but not sure if i can maintain it if it breaks. I’m not so good at computers

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Doing the usual software update and upgrade works very well.

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[Member Xecure]

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Hi, and welcome to antiX!

antiX has 2 level of releases:
– Major releases (big number releases). These releases mean a complete change of “innards” of the operating system. These releases occur every 2 years (aprox.) when Debian changes its stable releases. Examples: antiX 17, antiX 19, antiX 21, etc.
– Minor releases (also know as point releases) are small revisions of the major releases, including bug fixes and sometimes new features. All changes are automatically included as updates to any previous point release inside the same major release, so you will recieve them without having to do anything at all. Example: antiX 19.1, 19.2 and 19.3 are released as point releases for people who haven’t installed antiX 19 yet and want the most stable and up to date revision.

During the release cycle, major releases have a support of 4 to 4 years since their release, with more active support the first 2 years.

About updating between point releases, it is automatic and you don’t need to do anything.
If you want to update from one major release to another one (example, from 1tiX 17.X to antiX 19.X), you can either reinstall (as Mr. Brian Masinick mentioned), or you can try to upgrade using the command lione. There usually is a guide published in the forum when a major release comes out explaining how to upgrade from the previous one (if it is possible, and in most cases it is possible). It is recommended to back up your system before doing this (for example, creating a snapshot of your installed system), and it is not always guarantied that it will go perfect the first time. If there is some trouble, you can restart from the snapshot and we can try to help you upgrade as best we can.

I hope this helps answer your question.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Thanks for the much more complete and accurate answer Xecure!

The bottom line is that without reinstalled software you can get at least 3 years minimum from a single major release of antiX.

If you are familiar with Debian and you switch to Testing or Sid repos you can run the same “release” for many years.

I’ve done both with excellent results.
In fact I have had two or even 3 different instances of antiX installed, each with a different major or minor release. If I put the same Debian repository in my list I could run the same functionality. Looking at the release number, it would be different. The functional software was identical; only release numbers and cosmetics would be different. I was even able to make the cosmetics identical.

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[Member gypsygirl]

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Thank you both Xecure and Brian Masinick! That answers all my questions!

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