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As Aki said most likely you'll be fine. If the spin is configuration and not a custom vanity distro commonly built on ubuntuized libraries then no issue. Upon upgrade it should be obvious, just take note of invalid actions. Synaptic can spell it out for you. You don't have to commit to changes. [/q...

My apologies, if my question was misunderstood.

It currently tracks Bullseye. After bookworm is officially released, I want it to continue to track Bullseye, as it will be LTS at that point.

Hello. Everything you asked about here is written in their official documentation. Please read this . That information will be obsolete this weekend once Bookworm is released. However, I have not received a reply to my inquiry over at their project's GitHub Discussion, so I will leave the sources.l...

Random_Troll wrote: ↑2023-06-05 19:26 Not if you were using pure Debian. I've never used SpiralLinux though so I don't know if they've made any changes that might affect things. Why not ask on their forums?

I have since done that. They do not have their own repo or packages. The repos are pure Debian.

I installed SpiralLinux which installs the current Debian stable at the time the image was released (in this case, Bullseye) and it also enables Debian Backports by default. It is currently using the backported 6.1 kernel. Where Bullseye will be entering LTS once Bookworm is released later this week...

I was able to very carefully remove LXQt and Xfce from this desktop and installed KDE Plasma. Installing the pipewire-audio metapackage, did the trick. I kept LXDE installed, as that was the original image used to install Debian on it and didn't want to unknowingly remove something that shouldn't be.

I answered my own question, went through the listing and it does want to reinstall pulseaudio, so I'll leave the desktop as it is and will try Plasma on an external drive.

I was looking at possibly installing KDE Plasma on the desktop where I recently reinstalled Debian Sid. Now that I have Pipewire running on it and another system, when I ran nala and apt to install task-kde-desktop, they want to remove pipewire-alsa and pipewire-audio. Pipewire-audio was just instal...

On both systems, I installed pipewire-audio (using Synaptic), which took care of the rest. Bluetooth is working on both.

Thank you.

I had to reinstall Debian Sid because of a hardware issue. Once everything was reinstalled, I discovered Bluetooth didn't work. I did the same steps as outlined in https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154544 , nothing. The Bluetooth dongle will detect the headphones (tried multiple pairs), but ...

Apparently, all this required to correct, was to first remove appstream, apt-config-icons, packagekit and packagekit-tools, then reinstall them. Done via Synaptic. This also cleared out the remaining two packages from the autoremove list, none are listed now.

After updating my sid desktops yesterday, apt flagged some packages for autoremove. I opted to keep them installed, because they looked rather important. The following packages will be REMOVED: appstream apt-config-icons libappstream4 libstemmer0d packagekit packagekit-tools Any ideas as to why apt ...

I started this thread back in December, when I saw numerous Qt-related packages not updating. It was after this, that I discovered that installing the LXQt meta package also included a minimal KDE desktop. Running Synaptic to update packages during that time, eventually removed the excess packages a...

There may be an explanation here re KDE.

Any desktop manager should be able to launch an LXQt session. I have lightdm installed.

It is scheduled for bookworm. Non free firmware packages are being moved from non-free to a new section non-free-firmware. If you added non-free only for firmware, you can replace it with non-free-firmware. Thanks for the post. Just added it to sources.list and it retrieved many *-firmware packages...

nala is in the Debian repo. I installed it once to see how it did, but it displayed what appeared to be script errors when run, so I removed it. Yeah I don't use it either but thought I'd mention it seeing siduction uses it. It is quite new and has seen significant recent development so may be a di...

siduction have actually introduced nala for package management now, so another contender! :D It has weird behaviour of automatically running autoremove which is a Very Bad Idea® IMO but can be disabled in its conf file nala is in the Debian repo. I installed it once to see how it did, but it displa...

E-mails started coming in just now and dig is now showing the MX record for the domain again. But I was able to successfully unsubscribe that e-mail from the mailing lists via the e-mails received and using an address more reliable. Thanks again.

I just ran Synaptic and let it do its thing. I also took screenshots of what it was removing/installing/upgrading. After this, I ran apt autoremove from a terminal and there were now numerous (KDE) package to remove as they were now no longer required. I let it autoremove all of the packages, then r...

it wants to remove software-properties-kde software-properties-kde does not belong to unstable or testing, there is a package software-properties-qt though. software-properties-qt depends python3-software-properties (=0.99.30-4) # apt install software-properties-kde Reading package lists... Done Bu...