How-To: Migrate from #! to vanilla debian

pxl8r · 2015-02-08 20:12:37

With the news from Corenominal, we had some talk on irc on how to migrate a running crunchbang system to "vanilla-debian".

So, without further ruminations, there are two ways to do it.

*** The CLI -way is to edit /etc/apt/sources.list

1. open terminal window, edit sources.list:

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

3. Comment out, ie. add a # -character to start of all lines containing "deb http://packages.crunchbang.org"
4. Write it, and exit ( ctrl+w, ctrl+x ).
5. Update:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Done.

*** The GUI -way is to use 'Synaptic'.

1. Run synaptic, from terminal as root:

$ sudo synaptic

(asks password)

2. Synaptic window pops up. Choose from menus "Settings > Repositories".

Uncheck all entries containing "crunchbang". Close (and "Software Sources" window closes).

Click on "Reload" icon in the main window. If there are updates, "Mark All Updates" icon lights up, click it, apply, wait - done.

Quit synaptic.

Last edited by pxl8r (2015-02-13 13:23:28)

chillicampari · 2015-02-08 20:23:12

Thank you pxl8r!

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damo · 2015-02-08 21:07:34

That won't work for a dist-upgrade though. There are other things to do before you go to jessie, to avoid breakage.

chillicampari · 2015-02-08 21:10:35

I understood this as a lateral move (same release) unless I missed something.

porkpiehat · 2015-02-08 21:15:35

chillicampari, you are right, but I think damo just wanted to point out that a dist-upgrade wasn't quite so simple.

Once the #! sources are removed and the box is upgraded (as in the OP), it will be on vanilla wheezy. A dist-upgrade to jessie is another step.

Last edited by porkpiehat (2015-02-08 21:18:20)

chillicampari · 2015-02-08 21:17:16

Ahhh... got it and thanks (I am a bit hazy at the moment). smile

pxl8r · 2015-02-09 18:11:00

damo wrote:

That won't work for a dist-upgrade though. There are other things to do before you go to jessie, to avoid breakage.

This is correct. The instructions here will not update your system to the next Release version, only take you from crunchbang to vanilla debian repositiories. If that is ever necessary.

This blog post may give you some idea what a manual change to Jessie (next release from Wheezy) might entail:
https://jschueths.wordpress.com/2014/04 … t-release/

seraphtrend · 2015-02-09 18:35:11

I have two questions,

1. why do we remove the entries with "deb http://packages.crunchbang.org", are those the packages that were maintained by corenominal?

2. What packages were being affected by those under packages,crunchbang.org?

damo · 2015-02-09 19:01:46

1) See this recent post

2) See for yourself here

seraphtrend · 2015-02-09 19:08:19

Thanks Damo smile

seraphtrend · 2015-02-09 19:21:56

all those packages, is that what comes on the ISO for installation? The #! core?

pxl8r · 2015-02-13 13:33:02

Mostly what happens is #! related themes get removed.

So, you will see the default, vanilla debian theming, which may be bit of a shock after the minimal but extremely stylish work we're used to.

It would be great if #! themes could be installed as a .deb on vanilla jessie...

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