Jumping to Testing or Sid

[kurotsugi]

delete everything under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.

[Mauro]

Thanks both for your answers. Finally, I installer one package to fix a dependency and then I coud install all the others packages but... it messed up my LMDE installation

Now it shows me only the login screen. If I try to log in, it turns in a black screen with only the mouse point.

I wanna use an up to date Debian + Mate distro, so I thougth this solutions:
1. Move to 17.1 or Ubuntu-Mate (don't know the diferrences)
2. Reinstall LMDE and try to move to testing again
3. Install SolydX and try adding Mate
4. Try to fix my installation

any suggestions?

[GeneC]

^^
Install a Debian Testing based distro with Mate or with Mate install-able.

I would suggest Sparky Linux.

http://sparkylinux.org/
http://sparkylinux.org/download/

Sparky Mate

About SparkyLinux

SparkyLinux is a lightweight, fast and simple Linux distribution designed for both old and new computers featuring customized Enlightenment and LXDE desktops. It has been built on the “testing” branch of Debian GNU/Linux.

Sparky is available for i486 and x86_64 machines.

Main features:
– Debian testing based
– rolling release
– lightweight, fast & simple
– main edition – lightweight & fast LXDE desktop
– Enlightenment – lightweight and beautiful
– ultra light base edition with Openbox or JWM desktops
– special gaming edition: GameOver
– MATE Edition with GNOME 2 fork desktop
– Razor-Qt Edition with Qt based desktop
– CLI Edition for building own customized desktop
– most wireless and mobile network cards supported
– set of selected applications, multimedia codecs and plugins
– easy hard drive / USB installation

[kurotsugi]

+1 to genec's suggestion.

there's no reason using solydxk or ubuntu based iso if you want to get debian+mate. you can either use debian testing iso or install another distro based on debian which use mate. if you love LMDE you could 'mintify' your system when LMDE2 got released.

[cpatrick08]

+1 to genec's suggestion.

there's no reason using solydxk or ubuntu based iso if you want to get debian+mate. you can either use debian testing iso or install another distro based on debian which use mate. if you love LMDE you could 'mintify' your system when LMDE2 got released.

you could use http://pointlinux.org/ which has ISOS available for Wheezy and Jessie

[Mauro]

Thanks!!!

From tty I installed OpenBox and started it... I also downloaded Sparky Mate but for some reason I wanna try to fix what I break. I think that is Mate what I have broken because all the other things works with openbox desktop.

Edit 1: with XFCE is the samen that with MATE: nothing works. Only with openbox I can log in.

[kurotsugi]

it's a known issue that current LMDE isn't upgradeable to debian testing. if you insist to debug it you can start checking the log files. apt history, dmesg and X's log should gives some information. else, if you could restore your system before upgrade, try to install XFCE then upgrade it to testing.

[Mauro]

Yep, muy mistake. I should have read a bit more than only this thread

I will install sparky while I try to debug The miss-upgraded LMDE

Thanks to all!

[py-thon]

I would suggest Sparky Linux.

With very little additional work Sparky looks like this

[GeneC]

Sparky with Cinnamon 2.2
(Cinnamon added on top of Sparky XFCE install)

[kurotsugi]

IIRC sparky is using cinnamon from debian so cinnamon 2.2 is now fully functional on debian. that's a good news. we might could upgrade LMDE to testing and avoid cinnamon broke with several tricks :3

[Mauro]

Hi! Finally I decided to move to 17.1 and leave my mess-up LMDE in another partition until I could make it work another time.

Thanks to all for your help!

[woodsman]

Hey folks. Are the instructions found at the beginning of this thread still valid to move LMDE (fully updated) to Jessie? (Except replace 'testing' with jessie'.)

Second, how does one restore sources.list when LMDE finally moves to Jessie?

Thanks.

[vito_spatafore]

thx 4 NADA !

[vito_spatafore]

Is this subfora abandoned ?

Postby woodsman on Wed Dec 17, 2014 7:48 pm