2010 to 2012 Full Monty

[orgelkraft]

I have a laptop that is running PClinusOS 2010... or I should say that Synaptic points to 2010 in the repositories... The computer was not booted into PCLinuxOS for about 8mo., did I miss an upgrade window or something? I want get to 2012 Full Monty. I have already burned a DVD from the ISO, but I have everything working the way I like it and I would really rather do an in-place upgrade... I have read that apt-get dist-upgrade is a no-no, AFTER I tried it and nothing happened.. it was stopped by a locked file. I have everything installed in a single partition because I WAS doing a triple boot with Fedora and FreeBSD for network support work and sharing a common data partition. (YES, it was a convoluted MESS) I am now JUST running PCLinusOS, as it runs rock solid on this computer.

YES the LOGICAL thing would be to backup and do a fresh 2012 Monty install on the entire drive, but that's a lot of work... stupid work if it can be avoided. CAN IT???

Mark

[johnmart]

The repo for 32bit is still named 2010, but the content is current.
But a big change since your install is that KDE was updated from 4.6.5 to 4.8.
So the kde4 section was named to kde. In synaptic>settings>repositories change kde4 to kde.
Hey wait a second......
Better to just follow the Official guide.  
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,108162.0.html
Updating from an 8mo old install could be a problem. I recently read a forum post of a similar situation. He did his update in increments with success. I'll see if I can locate that.

[pinoc]

DON'T try to update a 8-month untouched installation 

We do have a forum thread for these kind of questions: FullMonty-DVD: installation and maintenance

FullMonty before 2012.09: Trying to update to the current version is a waste of time and download space and it will render your current system useless. Use your old system as it is or make a fresh install from the latest 2012.09 iso.

regards,
-p.