Upgrade 5.25.5

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#1 Post by **Gerson** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:28 am

I was looking in the KDE forum and did not find something similar, so I open this thread, I hope not to bother.
I was always curious to upgrade Plasma KDE from 5.20.5 to a higher version. After trying it on several machines without breaking the system, I was able to do it. It is done with this tutorial that I leave the link. This is not official MX but a personal test that has worked for several users on different machines with no problems detected so far.

Just click here (it's in Spanish).

#2 Post by **Stevo** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:47 pm

The maintainer of that OBS repo is also a Debian KDE packager, so it's not somebody that doesn't know what they're doing, either.

#3 Post by **Sudhakarrdy** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 10:58 am

Does this procedure work for KDE installed over XFCE?
Versions of MX & KDE that I'm using are the same as u have mentioned.

#4 Post by **Stevo** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:22 pm

You don't install KDE "over" XFCE; it's installed alongside, then you can remove XFCE if you wish.

And, yes, it will also work to upgrade KDE that way.

#5 Post by **neogeo** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:38 pm

Hello.
I have successfully upgraded to 5.25.5 and I am not satisfied (i repeat that everything is OK).
How to restore the previous state of the system?
I have a Snapshot recording that is 10 days old and in ISO format. Do I have to create a USB Live media and reinstall the desired system/image from it or is there another way?

thanks

#6 Post by **neogeo** » Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:19 am

Any advise, please?

#7 Post by **Buck Fankers** » Sun Nov 27, 2022 3:52 pm

neogeo wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:38 pm How to restore the previous state of the system?
I have a Snapshot recording that is 10 days old and in ISO format. Do I have to create a USB Live media and reinstall the desired system/image from it or is there another way?

Yes, this is how I use snapshot, for install. I put it on USB stick and install from it.

Note, you will return you system like it was 10 days ago. It would be better, if you would create snapshot just before you decided to change your system. Also, probably better, or as good, you should create backup with say Timeshift, just before you upgraded to 5.25.5. You can then easy return to previous state with Timeshift, without the need to reinstall the system with snapshot iso.

#8 Post by **neogeo** » Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:17 pm

@Buck Fankers
THX a lot.
I have returned own ISO by reinstalling system and repaired Grub after that. So my MX Plasma now working as i wish.

#9 Post by **Sudhakarrdy** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:36 pm

Stevo wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:22 pm You don't install KDE "over" XFCE; it's installed alongside, then you can remove XFCE if you wish.

How to remove XFCE?

#10 Post by **Solon** » Mon Jan 16, 2023 8:06 am

Sudhakarrdy wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:36 pm
Stevo wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:22 pm You don't install KDE "over" XFCE; it's installed alongside, then you can remove XFCE if you wish.
How to remove XFCE?

I'm hardly an expert, but I did check in the MXPI (MX Package Installer), and under "Desktop Environments" there is listed each of the standard MX desktop environments (e.g. KDE, Xfce and some others).

Now Xfce should be 'greyed out' for you in the MXPI. If so, you can click on the box for Xfce, and a button at the bottom right should highlight and say, "Uninstall". Then just click on that button, and it should uninstall Xfce using the normal MX routines.
If it is NOT greyed out, I'm not sure. Come back to the Forum and ask.

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