Jose M. Calhariz: Crossgrading a complex Desktop and Debian Developer machine running Debian 9
This article is an experiment in progress, please recheck, while I am
updating with the new information.
I have a very old installation of Debian, possibly since v2, dot not
remember, that I have upgraded since then both in software and hardware. Now
the hardware is 64bits, runs a kernel of 64bits but the run-time is still
32bits. For 99% of tasks this is very good. Now that I have made many
simulations I may have found a solution to do a crossgrade of my desktop. I
write here the tentative procedure and I will update with more ideias on the
problems that I may found.
First you need to install a 64bits kernel and boot with it. See my previous post on how
to do it.
Second you need to do a bootstrap of crossgrading and the instalation of all
the libs as amd64:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get clean
dpkg --list > original.dpkg
apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64
cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg -i --skip-same-version dpkg_*_amd64.deb apt_*_amd64.deb bash_*_amd64.deb dash_*_amd64.deb mawk_*_amd64.deb *.deb
for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg egrep "^ii " awk ' print $2 ' ) ; do
echo $pack32 ;
if dpkg --status $pack32 grep -q "Multi-Arch: same" ; then
apt-get --download-only install -y --allow-remove-essential $ pack32%:i386 :amd64 ;
fi ;
done
dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/*_amd64.deb
dpkg --print-architecture
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
But this procedure does not prevent the "apt-get install" to have broken
dependencies.
So trying to install the core packages and the libraries using "dpkg
-i".
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean
dpkg --list > original.dpkg
apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64
for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg egrep "^ii " awk ' print $2 ' ) ; do
echo $pack32 ;
if dpkg --status $pack32 grep -q "Multi-Arch: same" ; then
apt-get --download-only install -y --allow-remove-essential $ pack32%:i386 :amd64 ;
fi ;
done
cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb
dpkg --configure --pending
dpkg --install --skip-same-version dpkg_*_amd64.deb apt_*_amd64.deb bash_*_amd64.deb dash_*_amd64.deb mawk_*_amd64.deb *.deb
dpkg --remove libcurl4-openssl-dev
dpkg -i libcurl4-openssl-dev_*_amd64.deb
Remove packages until all there is no brokens packages
dpkg --print-architecture dpkg --print-foreign-architectures apt-get --fix-broken --allow-remove-essential installStill broken, because apt-get removed dpkg So instead of only installing the libs with dpkg -i, I am going to try to install all the packages with dpkg -i:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get autoremove apt-get clean dpkg --list > original.dpkg apt-get --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64 bash:amd64 dash:amd64 init:amd64 mawk:amd64 for pack32 in $(grep i386 original.dpkg egrep "^ii " awk ' print $2 ' ) ; do echo $pack32 ; apt-get --download-only install -y --allow-remove-essential $ pack32%:i386 :amd64 ; done cd /var/cache/apt/archives/ dpkg --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb dpkg --configure --pending dpkg --install --skip-same-version dpkg_*_amd64.deb apt_*_amd64.deb bash_*_amd64.deb dash_*_amd64.deb mawk_*_amd64.deb *.deb dpkg --configure --pendingRemove packages and reinstall selected packages until you fix all off them. Follow the trial for my machine:
dpkg --remove rkhunter dpkg --remove libmarco-private1:i386 marco mate-control-center mate-desktop-environment-core mate-desktop-environment-core mate-desktop-environment mate-desktop-environment-core mate-desktop-environment-extras dpkg --remove libmate-menu2:i386 libmate-window-settings1:i386 mate-panel mate-screensaver python-mate-menu libmate-slab0:i386 mozo mate-menus dpkg --remove libmate-menu2:i386 mate-panel python-mate-menu mate-applets mate-menus dpkg -i libmate-menu2_1.16.0-2_amd64.deb dpkg --remove gir1.2-ibus-1.0:i386 gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions gdm3 gnome-session dpkg --remove gir1.2-ibus-1.0:i386 dpkg --remove libmateweather1:i386 dpkg -i libmateweather1_1.16.1-2_amd64.deb apt-get --fix-broken --download-only install dpkg --skip-same-version --install dpkg_*amd64.deb tar_*amd64.deb apt_*amd64.deb bash_*amd64.deb dash_*amd64.deb *.deb dpkg --configure --pending dpkg -i python_2.7.13-2_amd64.deb dpkg --configure --pending dpkg -i perl_5.24.1-3+deb9u1_amd64.deb perl-base_5.24.1-3+deb9u1_amd64.deb dpkg -i exim4-daemon-light_4.89-2+deb9u1_amd64.deb exim4-base_4.89-2+deb9u1_amd64.deb dpkg -i libuuid-perl_0.27-1_amd64.deb dpkg --configure --pending dpkg --install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1.10.4-1_amd64.deb libmpeg2encpp-2.1-0_1%3a2.1.0+debian-5_amd64.deb libmplex2-2.1-0_1%3a2.1.0+debian-5_amd64.deb dpkg --configure --pending dpkg --auditNow fixing broken dependencies on apt-get. Found no other way than removing all the broken packages.
dpkg --remove $(apt-get --fix-broken install cut -f 2 -d ' ' ) apt-get install $(grep -v ":i386" ~/original.dpkg egrep "^ii" grep -v "aiccu" grep -v "acroread" grep -v "flash-player-properties" grep -v "flashplayer-mozilla" egrep -v "tp-flash-marillat" awk ' print $2 ')
The first 
Nearly 40 participants from 14 different free software project had very busy
days sharing knowledge, building understanding, and producing actual patches.
Anyone interested in cross project discussions should join the 
Infrastructure
Several discussions at the meeting helped refine a shared understanding of what
kind of information should be recorded on a build, and how they could be used.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor sent a 
This brief announcement was published in the 
I’ve created this 180 degrees panorama from 16 photos taken out of my window (3 rows: 6 + 6 + 4). The original picture is huge: 5000-something pixels wide and high and approximately 22Megs (jpg) fat.
If you want to test it yourself just 
So it seems that a TV show is a nice steady 5 mbits/sec, which everything
seems to keep up with okay. The post-processing to flag commercials seems a
bit more bandwidth-intensive. It seems to take about 40 minutes to flag the
commercials for a 60 minute block of recording.
It's early days yet, but I'm fairly happy with how everything's operating so
far. I can certainly leave things as they are for a while without needing to
fiddle with things any further.
The one thing I do want to mention is the