Neon/BionicUpgrades

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Revision as of 12:42, 20 June 2018 by Riddell (talk | contribs)

This is for testing only, ***likely to break your system***

Upgrade Your KDE neon install to Bionic, Testing now Open

1) Update your system using Plasma Discover

3) Edit /etc/update-manager/meta-release e.g. with sudo nano /etc/update-manager/meta-release and edit releases.neon.kde.org to be metadata.neon.kde.org/changelogs/

4) Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neon.list with e.g. sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neon.list and replace user with release

5) Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.d/neon.cfg with e.g. sudo nano /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.d/neon.cfg and add neonrelease=http://archive.neon.kde.org/release

6) Log out and log back in again

7) You will be notified of a new release

8) Review the release notes from Ubuntu

9) Upgrader will run

If you have any additional repositories enabled you will get a message similar to this. Click close and you can re-enable the repositories after the upgrade if needed

10) You now get to choose to start the upgrade

11) Have a cup of tea while it downloads and installs the upgrade

12) Click Remove to remove obsolete packages

13) Click Restart Now

14) Welcome to your updated KDE neon running on Bionic