The Trisquel 12 ISO's need to be linked in the "Download" section
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This is just getting silly that I still today, on April 3, 2026, a mere 20 days before the release of a 2-year newer LTS version of upstream Ubuntu, need to search DuckDuckGo for a Trisquel 12 download link rather than downloading it from Trisquel's own Download page.
And saying "It's not been officially released" is also getting a bit silly when probably most users are already using it.
Release it, don't release it, I don't care - but please please please at least link to it in a convenient location.
Here, I'll do us all a favor and link to it here so you don't have to go searching for it: https://cdbuilds.trisquel.org/ecne/
Please visit the documentation:
Yes, because that's always where I look for ISO Downloads. On the Documentation page. Which does not have a "wiki" link, but if I know enough, I know to then go to "Manuals", because of course. And then to scroll down to section "II About Trisquel", to the sub-point "Versions". Which takes me to a page where I can finally click on a link for Trisquel 12.0 Ecne.
Yes, that's almost as simple as putting a link to Trisquel 12 in Downloads, or putting a link to "Development versions" in Downloads.
Or - get this - or I could just go to DuckDuckGo, type in "Trisquel Ecne", and it takes me straight to the ISO download page. So basically DuckDuckGo is ten times easier to find stuff on the Trisquel website than the Trisquel website itself. Brilliant.
Have you got any insights you can share with us on what still needs to be done to finalize the release? Are we just waiting on a person to push a button somewhere, or are there show-stopping bugs that still need worked out?
There are small bugs as anyone could imagine, but I don't see any blocker right now. Still the release mechanism is not the same as the development one, so we rely on someone to push the button.
Sooner than later I expect we'll have news.
Well, you've done fantastic work on it @Ark74. Seems plenty good enough to hit the release button to me.
As of today, it's up to users to test the upgrade process with:
do-release-upgrade -d
-d as in development, but so far it should be pretty much the final release.
When the final release is launched, you should be fine doing:
do-release-upgrade
I've seen some recommendations to use sudo, but it might be better to use it with regular user (no sudo), it will launch the permissions request by itself.
Regards
'do-release-upgrade -d' seems to be working.
I'll see you on the other side!
I've had to do a bunch of very hacky stuff to get rid of trisquel-desktop-common and trisquel-desktop-common-data, or otherwise the upgrade script wouldn't run.
I'll try to put my commands here so you can see:
sudo aptitude purge trisquel-desktop-common
This seemed to handle the trisquel-desktop-common package, but the trisquel-desktop-common-data package was much worse.
sudo aptitude purge trisquel-desktop-common-data
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq trisquel-desktop-common-data [failed]
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt -f install
dpkg-divert --list | grep '/etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini' || true
sudo dpkg-divert --package trisquel-desktop-common-data --rename --remove /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini [failed]
sudo install -d -m 700 /root/trisquel-backup
sudo cp -a /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini* /root/trisquel-backup/ 2>/dev/null || true
sudo dpkg-divert --list | grep '/etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini' || true
sudo ls -l /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.ubuntu 2>/dev/null || true
sudo diff -u /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.ubuntu || true
sudo mv /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.ubuntu /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.ubuntu.bak
sudo dpkg-divert --package trisquel-desktop-common-data --rename --remove /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq trisquel-desktop-common-data
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt -f install
That finally seemed to get rid of trisquel-desktop-common-data. I'm just posting this so that you know @Ark74, I wouldn't want anyone to use this as a guide for their own system. As I said, it's very hacky, and is likely to mess up your system.
Got some more problems now, 7zip is throwing up errors:
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
(Reading database ... 550055 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../7zip_23.01+dfsg-11trisquel2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking 7zip (23.01+dfsg-11trisquel2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/7zip_23.01+dfsg-11trisquel2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/7zr', which is also in package p7zip 16.02+dfsg-8+11.0trisquel1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/7zip_23.01+dfsg-11trisquel2_amd64.deb
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Seems to be a bit more of a problem. I'll work on it tonight.
Working through some more issues with an upgrade to the 7zip package throwing out dpkg errors.
Fortunately I've still got a working Mate desktop and internet and everything, even though I'm only about 1/4 of the way through the upgrade to Trisquel 12.
And these errors could very well be my fault - I added a lot of software to Trisquel 11, and built a lot of packages on it. My Trisquel 11 is probably all filled up with weird files and packages that bring up conflicts.
Here's what fixed the 7zip/p7zip upgrade errors:
sudo dpkg -r p7zip p7zip-full
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt --fix-broken install
Now I've still got 1,492 packages waiting for upgrade. 1492, the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue ...
OK, that all worked, running Ecne now on this laptop.
You know, this could be handy some months ago.
https://trisquel.info/es/forum/diy-build-your-upgrade-ecne-tool