how to upgrade to belenos from 6.0

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oralfloss
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I have looked all over the website but I cannot find instruction on how to update to Belenos from toutatis. I do not have an external hard drive so I cannot do a fresh install. Is it possible?

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Isn't the "Update Manager" proposing you to click a button to update to Trisquel 7?

oralfloss
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I do not remember using update manager before.. I use synpatic manager to update my programs. Where do I find the update manager?

oralfloss
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Never mind I just found it in system settings if that is the correct one you are talking about.

It only had 2 updates to offer for me (see the pic attached)

I did both updates and nothing else appears now. (see second pic)

Is there something I am missing?

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Your system is probably configured to "never" "notify of a new version of Trisquel". If so, change that configuration in the "Updates" tab of "Software & Updates" in the "System Settings".

oralfloss
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You are right it was set to never and so I changed it to "for any new version". I have reset my computer and went to the update manager again and clicked "check" but there is still no button to upgrade to trisquel 7 and the update list is still blank.

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Strange. Try this command in a terminal emulator:
$ gksu update-manager -d

oralfloss
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Still looks the same after running that

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Are you sure you are actually running Trisquel 6? Executing the following command in a terminal is a way to tell:
$ lsb_release -r
If you really use the 6.0 release, then stay in the terminal to execute:
$ sudo do-release-upgrade

oralfloss
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trisquel@thinkpad:~$ lsb_release -r
Release: 6.0
trisquel@thinkpad:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
[sudo] password for trisquel:
Checking for a new Trisquel release
No new release found
trisquel@thinkpad:~$

It looks like I am running 6 but for some reason the update isn't found?

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Do it the old fashioned way.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list...

deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos main
deb-src http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos main

deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos-updates main
deb-src http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos-updates main

deb http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos-security main
deb-src http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ belenos-security main

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude full-upgrade

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I know this doesn't help you right now, but I strongly recommend have separate partitions for / (root - your OS) and /home (your user files). That way you can install a new OS without needing an external drive, although when you're making any major changes to your OS (including version upgrades), it's a good idea to back up anything really essential somehow anyway.

15-20GB is plenty for your / partition (unless you install a lot of games and other large programs). The rest of the drive can be /home.

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> I know this doesn't help you right now, but I strongly recommend have
> separate partitions for / (root - your OS) and /home (your user files).

This has caused problems for me. Right now, I have only 595.6 MiB in /,
and my system keeps alerting me about it.

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