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Topic: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

Hello Forum,

As I've read just a moment ago that Crunchbang 9.04 has been released and I haven't found some instructions from upgrading 8.10 to 9.04 I'll ask straight-away.. So is there any script/instruction yet available?

Thanks in advance.

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  • From: Lost River Lake
  • Registered: 2009-02-19
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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

Two ways to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04: First way:

Nik_Doof wrote:

update your sources.list and replace "intrepid" with "jaunty", apt-get update, then do a "aptitude upgrade". Aptitude has alot more error handling / dependency resolution than just apt-get.

Second way:

snowpine wrote:

sudo apt-get install update-manager
sudo update-manager -d

Quoting the thread titled "Upgrade to 9.04?"

Last edited by Piraja (2009-07-08 13:14:27)

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

3rd way: 

sudo do-release-upgrade

4th way: (recommended)

Back up your data, do a fresh install.

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

Not bad.. 4 options.

This option sounds most reasonable to me.

4th way: (recommended)

Back up your data, do a fresh install.

Thanks again,

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

Tried first way, everything seemed to work on my acer aspire laptop, but then my logitech laser wireless mouse wouldn't work and I couldn't enter anything via keyboard in the login screen (I only managed to switch to another session via Alt+F1, where I could login, but being the noob that I am couldn't get much further than ordering it to shutdown). roll

Went to the 4th way, keeping my separate /home partition, and appart some minor glitches (no panel...) everything seems to be OK.

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

Went to the 4th way, keeping my separate /home partition, and appart some minor glitches (no panel...) everything seems to be OK.

yes, 8.10 use lxpanel while 9.04 use tint2.
and your /home/user_name/.config keep old parameters.

you can install lxpanel or change /home/user_name/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
and replace lxpanel by tint2.

  • From: Lost River Lake
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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

Hmm... On my laptop I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 with the 4th option, i.e.

sudo do-release-upgrade

and everything went smoothly – except for the fact that I had to install all of the CrunchBang-specific packages as Debs from http://crunchbang.net/packages-9.04.xx/pool/main/ afterwards – after the upgrade, I had lost the Usplash theme, GDM theme, CrunchBang themes for Openbox, openbox-logout (I installed oblogout as a Deb package afterwards, too, and edited the menu) and what not. But now everything seems to be back to normal, so far so good, so I guess it was worth it – even though I'm feeling a bit nostalgic about the default #! look in 8.10.

In my case, having installed and configured many non-default applications and personalized my system quite a bit, a fresh install would have meant starting many things from scratch. So I think a fresh install is indeed "recommended" but mostly when you have a close-to-default configuration.

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

thil77 wrote:

Went to the 4th way, keeping my separate /home partition, and appart some minor glitches (no panel...) everything seems to be OK.

yes, 8.10 use lxpanel while 9.04 use tint2.
and your /home/user_name/.config keep old parameters.

you can install lxpanel or change /home/user_name/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
and replace lxpanel by tint2.

Late thanks for assistance offered, but had already found a thread here at the forum (don't recall precisely which one, ATM) for enabling the tint2 panel, which I followed without any glitches... cool

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

could somebody let me know what files do i have to backup (apart from the obvious downloaded/created files of mine) to get my tweaks of 8.10 migrate to 9.04 after fresh install of it?
Just need the OS ones, and not the applications installed afterwards (backup entyre home would DO include a lot of stuff i don't want)
A link to a relevant post will do too (if any)...

What is Your method for backing up user settings/files?

Thanks.

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

ThreepWood wrote:

What is Your method for backing up user settings/files?

Most tweaks should reside in the "dotfiles" and "dotdirectories" of your home directory, i.e. the "hidden" files and directories whose names are preceded by a dot. There can be exceptions to this rule, and it really depends on whether you have, for instance, downloaded your possible custom fonts to your "/home/username/.fonts" directory. I personally have some other custom stuff, too, such as files needed by OpenVPN in "/etc/openvpn/", user-created mount-points and symbolic links in "/mnt/", customized "/boot/grub/menu.lst" and "/boot/grub/splashimages", and so on. But generally speaking it should be enough to choose the "hidden" files and directories you want to keep in your home directory.

Last edited by Piraja (2009-07-23 11:15:52)

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

This may need its own topic, but is there a similar way to "upgrade" from Lite to Standard? I think my little Eee PC 900HA could handle standard. (Though I have learned a lot about terminal-based applications from Lite).

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Re: Upgrade 8.10 to 9.04

opticalalchemy wrote:

This may need its own topic, but is there a similar way to "upgrade" from Lite to Standard? I think my little Eee PC 900HA could handle standard. (Though I have learned a lot about terminal-based applications from Lite).

I suspect you can simply 'sudo apt-get install crunchbang-desktop' though I've not personally tested this theory. smile