On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 13:22 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/26/2017 12:42 PM, evade. wrote:
> > Does anybody know the best way to upgrade from Fedora 25 LXDE to
> > Fedora 26 LXQt? I've not found an upgrade path documented
> > anywhere.
> >
> > I'm not concerned about leaving configuration data behind, but
> > would like to clean up unnecessary packages after the transition.
> >
> > Rebuilding with F26 LXQt and restoring from a backup isn't a viable
> > option for me.
> >
> > (FYI: I recently asked this question in the Fedora lxqt mailing
> > list and while there were two responses, nobody was sure and it was
> > suggested I ask here.)
>
>
> I think what you are basically saying is that you are currently
> running F25 with an
> LXDE Desktop and would like to upgrade to F26 and end up with a LXqt
> Desktop. If
> that is a correct assessment I would do the following....
>
> 1. Upgrade from F25 to F26.
>
> 2. Install the LXQt desktop by "dnf group install "LXQt Desktop"
>
> 3. Remove the LXDE desktop by "dnf group remove "LXDE Desktop"
>
> Looking at the man page for dnf you'd see...
>
> dnf [options] group remove <group-spec>...
> Mark the group removed and remove those packages in the
> group from
> the system which are neither comprising another
> installed group
> and were not installed explicitly by the user.
>
> You may run into a few minor issues along the way. In that depending
> on how you
> installed initially your system may not have "LXQt Desktop" marked as
> installed.
> And, I don't know what display manager is used by each Desktop
> Environment so it is
> possible you may have to manually adjust that after the removal of
> LXDE.
>
> If you have the time and resources you may want to create a Virtual
> Machine that
> mimics your current system and perform the steps to verify it works
> as I think it
> should. :-)
>
>
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Hi Ed,
Where is your certificate located. My evolution doesn't seem to find
it without a VERY long wait.
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