Upgrading to Trisquel 8

Yes. That should just work good. Backup first maybe.

I'm trying to do the upgrade at the moment, although during the 'apt-get update' part, I'm seeing some GPG errors, presumably because the authentication keys for the Flidas repos are different to the Belenos ones?:

W: GPG error: http://us.archive.trisquel.info flidas InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B138CA450C05112F
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.trisquel.info flidas-security InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B138CA450C05112F
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.trisquel.info flidas-updates InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B138CA450C05112F

It also seems to be throwing some warnings, like these:

W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-dev'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-wayland'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-x11'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libkf5sysguard-dev'
W: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libxapian-dev'
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi-backend-api-max
W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package pypy-cffi-backend-api-min

But those don't look too serious, so I'm going to ignore them and hope they will go away.

Then, during 'apt-get dist-upgrade', it's telling me that it can't authenticate the packages, which I assume is linked to the earlier GPG errors that I saw?

Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and do the upgrade and I'll report back once I get to the other side ... :)

Most of the packages seemed to install just fine, although a handful had dependency issues. The system isn't currently booting up, so one or two of those must be critical.

I'll have a look at those broken packages and see if there is anything I can do.

I installed Trisquel 8 nearly the same way...
I took a trsquel7 mini install and updated it until it got the new gpg keys from 2017.. After updating i changed the sources.list to flidas and had therefor no gpg errors... Then i had to only switch to systemd, because upstart wasnt working properly anymore.. There might be some packages which arent in flidas/xenial which you can uninstall, but besides that everything worked for me fine this way!

> I installed the full version and then changed to LXDE from Gnome

LXDE doesn't work in Trisquel 8 yet. It still has some missing/broken dependencies. Did you have any other DEs or WMs installed alongside LXDE?

You can get easily the missing packages from the ubuntu xenial repos.. gnome did work for me, i use lxqt atm.
Lxde worked for me as well ;)

I made a fresh clean install, because i couldnt fix the gpg problem but maybe someone else knows how to do so...

For systemd:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers

So, I've fiddled about a bit more and I seem to have gotten it working (sort of). I am now booted in and writing this on Trisquel 8, using LXDE. Woo hoo! :-D

To fix it, I booted into single-user mode. When I ran `sudo apt-get check`, there was a list of broken package dependencies. Not that many, and most of them seemed to be related to Texinfo. When I tried to run `apt-get -f install`, it didn't work (presumably some of those packages couldn't be fixed). So, I removed some of them with `dpkg -r`, to the point where `apt-get -f install` did work. At that point, apt kicked off into setting up a big list of packages, which took quite a while. So, it seems that perhaps the broken packages may have interrupted apt's upgrade process, which is probably why it broke my system. After it completed all that, I ran `apt-get upgrade` again and eventually apt got the system to a point where it was happy enough to boot into LXDE.

Another package that was causing problems was plymouth-theme-trisquel-logo, which I had to remove completely. After the upgrade, systemd was installed, but upstart hadn't been removed, so I removed that too.

So, I seem to have gotten there in the end, although I wouldn't say the experience was completely 'smooth'. There are probably some things that aren't working quite right. If I see anything then I'll try to figure out what packages they are see if I can do anything to fix them.

I have only been using Trisquel as my main desktop for a couple of years and was not aware I can upgrade in this way... I just reinstalled a new machine and used backintime to restore all the stuff I wanted to restore. Nice job, @Time4Tea !

It seems that, for the most part, Trisquel 8 is working and available, for those that want it. I guess we just need to polish out a few remaining issues and get the word out there then? (so much for those that were labeling it as a 'zombie' project ...)

One comment I have is that it doesn't really 'look' that much different to Belenos. For example, it would be great to have some new artwork for the booting screen and/or a new desktop wallpaper.

Maybe that ties into the plymouth-logo thing not working properly, if that is still a work-in-progress?

I am sorry to burst your bubble friends, but

TRISQUEL 8 DOES NOT EXIST. PERIOD

It is only Trisquel 8 pre-alpha that exists.
Real Trisquel 8 will not come out until 2020

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-8-release-countdown-clock