Upgrading from Debian sid?

[harishankar]

Is it possible to upgrade to siduction without reinstalling from scratch.

Currently on Debian sid, I want to track the latest Xfce and found siduction.

However, I get a GPG key error when I add siduction repository to my Debian sources.list.

Is it possible to simply upgrade from Debian to siduction without a full reinstall?

[michaa7]

It is possible, although it is recomended to do a clean install. There are many people (including me) who are running a system "converted" from sid, aptosid, sidux. No guarantee. I am not sure whether it is possible to install the complete artwork, though.

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Before you add any siduction package do a full dist-upgrade (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade) with pure Debian/Sid!
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As to the GPG key error, this can be solved in three steps:

The words "key" and "user" have to be adopted appropriately. What key to use is shown in the error message. "user" is the logged in user.

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gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys "key"The signature is downloaded via the key.

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gpg --export "key" > /home/"user"/SERVER.keyThe signature is stored in /home/"user"

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#apt-key add /home/"user"/SERVER.keyThe key is imported as an additional apt signature.

Now you may remove the file "SERVER.key"

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rm /home/"user"/SERVER.key

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apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -d and

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apt-cache search siduction -n and you will see all siduction specific packages and kernels (you need the appropriate kernel meta package).

Please, read carefully the most important pages in the manual, specially how to update with siduction (in runlevel 3, aka "init 3", no upgrade, never ever but dist-upgrade only ).

[harishankar]

Thanks for the help. I actually solved the GPG key error by installing the package siduction-archive-keyring.

I have now added the siduction repositories and it appears to be working. At least I now upgraded to Xfce 4.10 from Siduction, so I got what I wanted.

[Lanzi]

very good!
And welcome to the family :-)

[michaa7]

Thanks for the help.

You're welcome.

I actually solved the GPG key error by installing the package siduction-archive-keyring.

I have now added the siduction repositories and it appears to be working. At least I now upgraded to Xfce 4.10 from Siduction, so I got what I wanted.

If you did nothing else then you are still booting a stock Debian kernel, which is not a bad choice. However, if you like cutting edge kernels try one of towo's siduction kernels.

[harishankar]

Thanks. I installed the 3.6 kernel from siduction kernel and it works fine. I might give a fresh install of siduction a try later, when I get some free time to tinker with my system. (currently I have only one laptop which is my work laptop, so cannot really experiment much with it now).