10-28-2016, 11:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2016, 12:17 AM by kflorek46.
Edit Reason: add warning
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Pfeerick,
>That is only for the GUI/DE environment, isn't it?
Yes, update-manager is a GUI program. Also, upgrade-manager will not find an upgrade unless you have set synaptic to notify you of ALL upgrades. If it is set to only notify you of new LTS upgrades, it won't find yakkety, because it is not LTS (Long Time Support.) Other Ubuntu versions like yakkety are supported for 9 months (?), not 5 years.
I would expect what Pfeerick shows to do the same thing, including upgrading the desktop. Then Ubuntu should at least boot up either way. Since longsleep's repo is compiled for xenial, there is no assurance it will work with yakkety. But since the drivers only depend on the kernel, and the kernel does not change, the drivers really should work. One of the hitches is that update-manager will either disable the repo designations = xenial or update them to yakkety. I am too lazy right now to check how longsleep designates his repo, but if it needs to be set to back to xenial after an upgrade, you can do it manually (change text files in /etc/apt/sources.list or in subdirectory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/)
I'll repeat what I said before. If you are afraid of failing, don't try it.
If you are perfectly fine screwing up everything you have done so far, you are the right kind of person to try it. Don't demand any help or expect sympathy.
>That is only for the GUI/DE environment, isn't it?
Yes, update-manager is a GUI program. Also, upgrade-manager will not find an upgrade unless you have set synaptic to notify you of ALL upgrades. If it is set to only notify you of new LTS upgrades, it won't find yakkety, because it is not LTS (Long Time Support.) Other Ubuntu versions like yakkety are supported for 9 months (?), not 5 years.
I would expect what Pfeerick shows to do the same thing, including upgrading the desktop. Then Ubuntu should at least boot up either way. Since longsleep's repo is compiled for xenial, there is no assurance it will work with yakkety. But since the drivers only depend on the kernel, and the kernel does not change, the drivers really should work. One of the hitches is that update-manager will either disable the repo designations = xenial or update them to yakkety. I am too lazy right now to check how longsleep designates his repo, but if it needs to be set to back to xenial after an upgrade, you can do it manually (change text files in /etc/apt/sources.list or in subdirectory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/)
I'll repeat what I said before. If you are afraid of failing, don't try it.
If you are perfectly fine screwing up everything you have done so far, you are the right kind of person to try it. Don't demand any help or expect sympathy.