Enabling Flidas Backports

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Beko
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Iscritto: 08/31/2019

Hello all I am using Trisquel 8.0, because I had mouse + encryption issues. I want to benefit from some newer packages, but upgrading flidas to etiona is not a viable solution.

I tried to uncomment the flidas backports in

sudo apt edit-sources

save

sudo apt update

and it only updated a few megabytes.

I still have libreoffice 5 for example, someone else had commented in that thread about how they enabled backports to update LO. I didn't want to spark that thread back up with 30+ comments.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

Beko
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Iscritto: 08/31/2019

SOLVED! Please lock this thread

I hadn't changed flidas-backports to etiona-backports.

Magic Banana

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Iscritto: 07/24/2010

Mixing Trisquel 8 Flidas' repositories with Trisquel 9 Etiona's is a bad idea... You can get a .deb (that you decompress and install with a double-click, assuming GDebi is installed) for your language from LibreOffice's website. For instance, https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/deb-x86_64/6.3.5/en-US/LibreOffice_6.3.5_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

Beko
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Iscritto: 08/31/2019

I only changed the flidas-backports to etiona-backports. Isn't this the correct way to use backports? How else can they be used?

> You can get a .deb
LibreOffice was an example I just wanted working backports to update in general. Were it not for some mouses issues I had with Trisquel 9 I would still use it.

Magic Banana

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Iscritto: 07/24/2010

"flidas-backports" contains the backports for Trisquel 8 Flidas. "etiona-backports" contains the backports for Trisquel 9 Etiona.

Although it is still in alpha, you can try Trisquel 9 Etiona (and even enable its backports, if you wish): http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/

Beko
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Iscritto: 08/31/2019

Thanks I re-commented the backports and did sudo apt autoremove and sudo apt dist-upgrade to remove the packages.

Ark74

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Iscritto: 07/15/2009

Just like Magic Banana said, you might wanna try out Etiona.

Even when is still in development, you can find it quite stable for an Alpha, also if you find bugs you could report them and contribute towards its release.

Beko
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Iscritto: 08/31/2019

I installed etiona (9) and my mouse was moving super slow, even when sensitivity was jacked up to the max. I love Trisquel 8 because it works much better, I just wish for some of the essential packages like libreoffice,vlc,kodi,rhythmbox, etc.. to be more up to date.

Ark74

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Iscritto: 07/15/2009

Then maybe just help fix the mouse issue and keep all the other applications on a newer version, I would suggest.

Sadly there are limits on how much you can update the software, since the OS work on a synergistic fashion, so when core packages version limit other versions then you can't go beyond without manually removing code/features to allow interoperability.

This is part of the stability - bleeding edge trade, if you try Arch, you'll have the latest version on everything and also pass a big chunck of the time fixing configuration issues instead of dealing with actual work.

Regards!