Can I upgrade Coconut to Mint?

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 22:17:51 UTC 2021


No accessible gentoo install podcast exists so far as I know.  I have
installed many different distributions and versions of linux over the
years and gentoo has been the most difficult of all of them.


On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Also remember, you would have to somehow configure Mint to work like Coconut,
> there's a bunch of stuff you'll need from /etc/ to pull this off, and I would
> say, rather install Gentoo than do this. It's not worth it! By the way,
> neither is installing Gentoo.
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Brandt Steenkamp
>
> Sent from my Fedora Install using Thunderbird
>
> On 2021/11/23 22:28, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > In theory, since both are Debian based systems using dpkg and apt, you
> > could add the mint repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then
> > run:
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get upgrade
> >
> > and all of your installed packages would be upgraded to the newest
> > version provided by Mint.
> >
> > In practice, you'd likely end up with a mix of packages sourced from
> > both, even if you also removed the Coconut repositories since the Mint
> > version of a package would only be installed if it's version number
> > parses as higher to apt... but worse, you might run into conflicts
> > where a package sourced from Coconut depends on one version of a
> > Library and a Package from Mint depends on a different version of the
> > same library, you can't have both versions of the library installed at
> > the same time, and you end up with a tangled mess that in order to
> > upgrade some packages you must downgrade or remove other packages or
> > swap a package that was installed as a dependency for an alternative
> > package that meets the same dependency... Granted, such problems can
> > come up when  upgrading from one release to another of the same
> > distro, especially if there's an intermediate release(say, trying to
> > go from Ubuntu 20.10 directly to 21.10 instead of upgrading to 21.04
> > first), or even within the same release of a distro if the release
> > gets frequent upgrades to individual packages and you go a long time
> > without upgrading, but competent package maintenance can keep this to
> > a minimum as long as you stick to one distro...
> >
> > As such, it's generally recommended that one does a clean install if
> > they want to switch distros, even for distros that are very closely
> > related.
> >
> > That said, if you have a separate /home partition, you might be able
> > to migrate user setting simply by leaving the /home partition alone
> > and creating a user with the same username as the old distro, and
> > while it won't give you afull list of installed packages(which might
> > not be all that useful, since some will be libraries that might not
> > exist in the distro you're switching to, if you install the deborphan
> > package and run
> >
> > deborphan -a
> >
> > It'll give you a list of installed packages that aren't depended on by
> > other packages. They'll be prefixed with their section and one per
> > line, but strip away the former and put them all on one line, and
> > you've got the argument list to feed to apt-get install on the new
> > distro to restore most of your installed software.
> >
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