Re: Upgrading the system and installing Gambas from binary packages

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24.11.2025 23:13, gbWilly пишет:
> On Monday, November 24th, 2025 at 16:46, Gianluigi <gradobag@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Benoit, gbWilly, Lee
> >
> > The wiki is missing a warning that when automatically upgrading to a
> > later system version, you must delete the old Gambas and additional
> > repositories, then reinstall everything following the instructions for
> > the new system version.
> >
> > Regards
> > Gianluigi
> No you don't, you simply change the source to point to the newer distribution before you do a distro update (like from jammy to noble for example).
>
> Distro updates mainly comes down to:
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get full-upgrade
> apt-get autoremove
> reboot
>
> Next prepare the system for the actual distro upgrade by:
> Edit all source references to point to the new distro (so gambas source reference included if installed from OSB for example)
>
> Next do:
> apt-get update
> apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs (minimal upgrade -> advised)
> apt-get full-upgrade
> reboot
>
> Your system should reboot with your gambas3 upgraded
> Where in that process do you see gambas being removed (provided you installed from repository)?
>
>
> gbWilly
>
> GambOS
> Gambas3 for Debian/Ubuntu
>
> ...there is always a Catch if things go wrong!
Actually on Debian Gambas really prevents, for example, updating from 11 
to 12. If Gambas is installed under Debian 11, and you change bullseye 
to bookworm in sources.list, when dist-updating Gambas packages, it 
causes conflicts of dependencies. You have to remove Gambas first, then 
dist-upgrade, then install new Gambas from packages using apt. I cannot 
provide you with more information, I kinda got used to it, treating it 
as a feature, not a bug, and I don't remember which dependency was a 
problem, but I updated quite a few 11th to 12th always facing this 
problem, going through dpkg --fix-broken all the time. So yes, globally 
Gianluigi is right.

Dmitry