MX Modified - Latest MX KDE 5.22 Using MX21 beta

[MAYBL8]

After a reboot it left me at a console login prompt.
I think I am going to do a base debian install on this system and try from there to get unstable working.

[andyprough]

I installed gcc-8-base per a google search, after many removals and adds with dist-upgrade I am now here:

I'm going to try it with a fresh MX 19.3 VM.

[andyprough]

I installed gcc-8-base per a google search, after many removals and adds with dist-upgrade I am now here:

Here's what worked for me on a fresh MX19.3 vm -
1. immediately changed to the Sid repo and Norbert's 2012 repo and disabled the MX repo before updating any packages.
2. I tried to install plasma-desktop and got the same "libc6-dev breaks libgcc-8-dev" error.
3. I did the following:

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sudo apt purge libgcc-8-dev libc6-dev

and apt removed a lot of the build-essential tools and reinstalled some new ones.
4. Rebooted
5. ran 'sudo apt install plasma-desktop', and apt went to work installing about 468 packages
6. Rebooted
7. Plasma desktop came right up

Obviously don't do these steps unless you don't mind breaking your system and reinstalling and have everything very carefully backed up. But it did work for my freshly installed MX19.3 vm. It appears to me that the MX-supplied versions of libc6-dev and libgcc-8-dev are incompatible with whatever Sid is trying to do right now.

[norbert]

`debconf-kde-helper` ??? What is that? I have heard the first time of it and on my computer there is nowhere a trace of it ...???

[andyprough]

`debconf-kde-helper` ??? What is that? I have heard the first time of it and on my computer there is nowhere a trace of it ...???

It's a real package:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/debconf-kde-helper

[MAYBL8]

Thanks guys I am back up and running.

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Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.8.0-3-amd64
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics

I still have some errors but I will investigate those:
must be something that is being worked on in unstable:

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$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  gcc-8-base gcc-8-base:i386
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

[norbert]

Good to hear! I don't know about the gcc-8-base, it is uptodate here, and I don't see any strange dependencies.

[andyprough]

Thanks guys I am back up and running.

You are basically running what will eventually be MX KDE 21 right now Dan. Pretty cool.

[norbert]

@andyprough Anything you would like from our side to get ready?

[andyprough]

@andyprough Anything you would like from our side to get ready?

I'll send a message to the devs and ask them this question, thanks Norbert. For Dan and I it still appears to be working great on both MX and Devuan. But maybe Dan or the devs know of a change that would be beneficial.