On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been running bone-debian-8.2-tester-2gb-armhf-2015-11-12-2gb.img.xz > since shortly after it was released with great success on my BBW. I've kept > reasonably current with apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, although there are > 73 packages to be upgraded with c9-core-installer held back when I looked a > few minutes ago. Its installed to an 8GB SD card so space is not an issue. > This system has been running 24/7 since mid December doing an essential job, > but the system is evolving with new features added incrementally, so I'd > like to "roll" with Jessie as things progress. > > ~# cat /etc/dogtag > BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2015-11-12 > > ~# uname -a > Linux alarmbone 4.1.12-ti-r29 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 9 22:46:19 UTC 2015 > armv7l GNU/Linux > > Before I do this much of an upgrade, I'll shut the system down and "clone" > the sdcard so I can quickly go back, should something go wrong, but before I > start I'd like to know if I'm leaving out some packages that I don't know > the names of. > > > This part seem obvious and reasonably well documented, update kernel and dtb > files, but is this the "correct" kernel to be tracking these Jessie Testing > images?: > git clone https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays cd > ./bb.org-overlays > ./dtc-overlay.sh > ./install.sh > cd /opt/scripts/tools > git pull > sudo ./update_kernel.sh --lts-4_1 --ti-channel > > > Next I'd like to install the basic lxqt package so things like gedit would > work over ssh -X > What packages are needed to upgrade the 2GB console image to the 4GB lxqt > testing image? > > > I'm also concerned about the various "installer" packages I've seen > mentioned in various threads, like: > bb-bonescript-installer-beta > bb-node-red-installer > > What others might I be missing from my 2015-11-12 image? > > Or is it not really a viable option to try and evolve with apt-get update ; > apt-get upgrade? > > > Things don't seem right with Jessie updates. I ended up with an unusable > system (no ssh, no usb gadget) after trying apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade > trying to move from 8.2 to 8.3. back in early December, so I'm being more > careful this time. > > Doing something that should be relatively "safe" (as I'm not sure I'll > really use it, so unless it does really bad things all I risk is wasting > some SD card space) but it didtn't work: > ~# apt-get install bb-node-red-installer > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > bb-npm-installer > The following NEW packages will be installed: > bb-node-red-installer bb-npm-installer > 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded.
Well, bb-node-red-installer/bb-npm-installer is something i packaged in the last couple of weeks.. So if you have '74' other updates pending.. Yeah, that's not something i've tested for yet.. So let's see what happens with the base image: bone-debian-8.2-tester-2gb-armhf-2015-11-12-2gb.img.xz Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
