On 26/07/17 15:22, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/26/2017 12:42 PM, evade. wrote:
Does anybody know the best way to upgrade from Fedora 25 LXDE to Fedora 26 LXQt? I've not found an upgrade path documented anywhere.
I'm not concerned about leaving configuration data behind, but would like to clean up unnecessary packages after the transition.
Rebuilding with F26 LXQt and restoring from a backup isn't a viable option for me.
(FYI: I recently asked this question in the Fedora lxqt mailing list and while there were two responses, nobody was sure and it was suggested I ask here.)
I think what you are basically saying is that you are currently running F25 with an
LXDE Desktop and would like to upgrade to F26 and end up with a LXqt Desktop. If
that is a correct assessment I would do the following....
1. Upgrade from F25 to F26.
2. Install the LXQt desktop by "dnf group install "LXQt Desktop"
3. Remove the LXDE desktop by "dnf group remove "LXDE Desktop"
Looking at the man page for dnf you'd see...
dnf [options] group remove <group-spec>...
Mark the group removed and remove those packages in the group from
the system which are neither comprising another installed group
and were not installed explicitly by the user.
You may run into a few minor issues along the way. In that depending on how you
installed initially your system may not have "LXQt Desktop" marked as installed.
And, I don't know what display manager is used by each Desktop Environment so it is
possible you may have to manually adjust that after the removal of LXDE.
If you have the time and resources you may want to create a Virtual Machine that
mimics your current system and perform the steps to verify it works as I think it
should. :-)
Thanks Ed.
That's helpful information
I haven't had good experiences trying to remove package groups which
were installed as a part of an image - I originally installed the LXDE
spin of Fedora 25 you see.
However I'll give it a go!
As it turns out I do actually have a virtual machine mimicking the
"production" one. For some odd reason it only boots in to an old kernel
in KVM (the newer kernels crash in an odd way - no trace is left after
reboot even with debug options on) but I'll have to investigate that
further in another thread.
Evade
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