On Monday 07 December 2015 12:39:32 PM Javier Juan Albarracin wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I have recently updated (3 days ago) my Debian testing Plasma 4.14.2 to > Plasma 5 successfully, but it was not trivial. > > First, I tried to do the Plasma 5 upgrade by migrating from stable to > testing and performing the typicall apt-get upgrade && apt-get > dist-upgrade. However, such operations intends to uninstall packages such > as "task-kde-desktop", "kwin", "kde-standard" and so on. I accepted and > obviously the DE brokes after the reboot. I tried to perform the upgrade by > other similar ways (using aptitude instead of apt, etc) and always brokes. > So finally I decided to perform a fresh install of Debian 8.2 WITHOUT any > desktop environment, then install the KDE Desktop through the command line > and it works perfectly! > The steps I followed were: > > 1. Fresh install of Debian 8.2 (stable) WITHOUT Desktop Environment > 2. Change "stable" to "testing" and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && > apt-get dist-upgrade, since you cannot update more your system. Kernel > 4.2.0 is installed at this step. > 3. Follow the instructions of https://wiki.debian.org/KDE to install KDE > desktop > 3.1. apt-get install aptitude tasksel (They are already installed > but ensure it) > 3.2. aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$ > > And it works perfectly! Now, Plasma 5 is a little bit "fragile" (I cannot > say "unstable" because it is not true, but it is a little bit fragile). > > Hope it helps! > Regards. > > Javier.
Thanks, Javier, for the detailed reply. I'm already running testing, and whenever I upgrade I usually quit the desktop, stop kdm, and upgrade from the command line. I wonder if that will help produce a smoother upgrade experience?
