{"id":805,"date":"2015-11-22T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=805"},"modified":"2015-11-22T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:46:11","slug":"upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2015\/11\/22\/upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eeepc-and-beer\"<\/a>Upgrading oldish releases are a pain. I tried “official” ways to upgrade my Saucy Salamander Eeepc. No way.<\/p>\n

I got to do it the hard way, treating that Ubuntu like the Debian it is underneath. A power blow of apt-fu:<\/p>\n

%s\/saucy\/wily\/gc<\/p>\n

:wq<\/p>\n

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, that’s taking an hellish of time on such an aging net-top and such a worm-hole jump, jumping at least 4 releases requires to dive into a console, yes, those DOS like interface that still lives underneath your shiny desktop and hammering some<\/p>\n

\n

while (dpkg –reconfigure -a; apt-get -f install)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upgrading oldish releases are a pain. I tried “official” ways to upgrade my Saucy Salamander Eeepc. No way. I got to do it the hard way, treating that Ubuntu like the Debian it is underneath. A power blow of apt-fu: %s\/saucy\/wily\/gc :wq apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Now, that’s taking an hellish of time on…<\/p>\n

Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6daft-upgrades","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1254,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/04\/06\/aptyum-cheatlist\/","url_meta":{"origin":805,"position":0},"title":"apt\/yum cheatlist","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2016-04-06","format":false,"excerpt":"apt-cache se I'm actually doing the reverse: SwitchingToUbuntu\/FromLinux\/RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora\u00a0 but it's easy as a quick Ctrl-F or \/ Table of Equivalent Commands Below is a table of equivalent commands for package management on both Ubuntu\/Debian and Red Hat\/Fedora systems. Task Red Hat\/Fedora Ubuntu Adding, Removing and Upgrading Packages Refresh list of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Debian"","block_context":{"text":"Debian","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/debian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11756,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/06\/21\/spacefm\/","url_meta":{"origin":805,"position":1},"title":"SpaceFM","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2024-06-21","format":false,"excerpt":"Many years ago I tried PCManFM the grand-father of SpaceFM. I think I will try it. sudo apt install spacefm and sudo apt -t testing install spacefm and sudo apt -t unstable install spacefm keep telling me that 159 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 773 to remove and 887 not upgraded.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Software"","block_context":{"text":"Software","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/software\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/06\/spacefm-13-multitask.png?fit=1200%2C785&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/06\/spacefm-13-multitask.png?fit=1200%2C785&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/06\/spacefm-13-multitask.png?fit=1200%2C785&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/06\/spacefm-13-multitask.png?fit=1200%2C785&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/06\/spacefm-13-multitask.png?fit=1200%2C785&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10343,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/04\/01\/debian-programs-from-stable-testing-unstable-and-even-experimental-without-trauma\/","url_meta":{"origin":805,"position":2},"title":"Debian: programs from stable, testing, unstable and even experimental without trauma","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2023-04-01","format":false,"excerpt":"I originally wrote this in Italian but I think that it may be more useful translated into English In daily use of computers it often happens that you need a stable base and at the same time use recent, very recent or even 'beta\/alpha\/experimental' versions of some specific programs. Debian\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Debian"","block_context":{"text":"Debian","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/debian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2616,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2017\/06\/14\/oh-i-bricked-it-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":805,"position":3},"title":"Oh, I bricked it again","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2017-06-14","format":"status","excerpt":"\u00a0 Oh, I bricked it again This time I tried to switch from trusty to xenial in a na\u00efve way, forcefully removing faaar too many packages, then iussing an apt dist-upgrade I was trying to install fairly recent releases of mongodb and nodejs1 It didn't handled it very well.... Now\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mood"","block_context":{"text":"Mood","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/mood\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Inforce IFC 6410","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/wp-1462654662786.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/wp-1462654662786.jpeg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/wp-1462654662786.jpeg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13841,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/08\/12\/some-sources-can-be-modernized-run-apt-modernize-sources-to-do-so\/","url_meta":{"origin":805,"position":4},"title":"Some sources can be modernized. Run \u2018apt modernize-sources\u2019 to do so","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2025-08-12","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Alan Pope that explained so clearly the Run \u2018apt modernize-sources\u2019 to do so issue at discourse.ubuntu.com: The notice \u201cSome sources can be modernized. Run \u2018apt modernize-sources\u2019 to do so\u201d appears because your Ubuntu system has detected software repository configurations using the older, traditional format (.list files, typically \/etc\/apt\/sources.list\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Debian"","block_context":{"text":"Debian","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/debian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9656,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2022\/09\/25\/fix-missing-gpg-key-apt-repository-errors-no_pubkey\/","url_meta":{"origin":805,"position":5},"title":"Fix Missing GPG Key Apt Repository Errors (NO_PUBKEY)","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2022-09-25","format":false,"excerpt":"You might see a missing public GPG key error (\"NO_PUBKEY\") on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint when running apt update \/ apt-get update. This can happen when you add a repository, and you forget to add its public key, or maybe there was a temporary key server error when trying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Debian"","block_context":{"text":"Debian","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/debian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}