On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 13:22 +0800, 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. :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Ed, Where is your certificate located. My evolution doesn't seem to find it without a VERY long wait. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
