UPGRADING KNOPPIX 3.1 to 3.2
I have installed KNOPPIX 3.1 on a ASUS Laptop (it works fine!) and customized it to work with Greek Localization, installed several packages, etc. Now, I just downloaded KNOPPIX 3.2 and I would like to UPGRADE without losing my installed environment and packages! How could I do that? :?:
Re: UPGRADING KNOPPIX 3.1 to 3.2
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Originally Posted by sgk
I have installed KNOPPIX 3.1 on a ASUS Laptop (it works fine!) and customized it to work with Greek Localization, installed several packages, etc. Now, I just downloaded KNOPPIX 3.2 and I would like to UPGRADE without losing my installed environment and packages! How could I do that? :?:
You could save your /home as was suggested above and if you want to have exactly the same packages then dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt to save a file of your current packages then after you re-install then dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt to restore your old packages then just apt-get update and upgrade to restore the old programs. Also you will need to back up any configuration files you changed.
What exactly is it you need in 3.2 this seems like a lot of trouble to go through when you could just install the packages you need.
Re: reinstall Knoppix, or apt-get upgrade ?
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Originally Posted by benpark22
You're talking about two different upgrades. Upgrading Knoppix to the current release (3.2-04-15) is what this post is about. If 3.2 has something you want then follow the above directions to keep your current settings. If you want to start fresh, just reinstall without saving your /home directory.
apt-get upgrade is upgrading all available packages to their latest version. You can comment out anything in your sources list that you don't want to upgrade. Personally I only upgrade security and testing (and a few other things I don't have access to right now). That's just my preference however. Several people leave their sources.list as it is and it works fine. Have you done man apt-get? Maybe you could do a little apt-getting on your current install to get a feel for it and then install 3.2.