On 26 July 2017 7:54:02 pm AEST, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 07/26/2017 05:26 PM, evade. wrote: >> 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. >> >> >I had nothing to do, so I ran my suggestion in a VM. > >1. I did a netinstall of F25 LXDE to a VM with few added items like >libreoffice. >This showed 1291 packages installed. I took note that it was using >lxdm as the >display manager. I also lookup up info on LXqt and it seems to want to >us ssdm >for....so I took note of that. > >2. I performed the upgrade to F26 via dnf. This added a few more >packages so I now >had 1330. > >3. I did a "group list" and saw that no Desktop Environment was listed >as >Installed. So, I simply did a "dnf group mark install "LXDE Desktop". > >4. I then added LXQt with "dnf group install "LXQt Desktop". This >added a few more >packages and got me to 1518. > >5. Then since I knew LXQt would want ssdm I ran "systemctl --force >enable ssdm.service". > >6. I then rebooted and logged in to the LXQt desktop. I checked and >both Desktop >Environments were marked as installed. > >7. I then ran "dnf group remove "LXDE Desktop". It removed a few >packages leaving >me with 1449. > >8. I then rebooted (probably didn't have to) and at the login screen I >was left with >only LXQt and Openbox as choices. > >So, it works just fine.... Thanks very much! I would have missed step 3. For the record my KVM problem seems to be fixed in Fedora 26, so I'll soon try this for my own test system. Evade _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
