OK .... after quite a struggle I managed to "upgrade" my existing 3.8.17 (religiously apugged as @IamElive once nicely said) that had already been moved to Bullseye manually a while back. Here are my gripes/bugs: Conky starts up on the live-cd desktop despite being disabled in the welcome menu. …

[image] triantares: So how is it that Elive has older versions than Debian11 itself? It's possible that those are the pre-cached packages and the repo now has new ones available.

[image] TheTechRobo: pre-cached packages Probably, i.e the versions on the .iso. Meaning that either: The .iso needs changing.... IMO the preferable option. or: Everyone has to be warned to NOT start either Firefox or Thunderbird before first updating and upgrading them...else risk losi…

[image] triantares: Conky starts up on the live-cd desktop despite being disabled in the welcome menu. No biggy but not how it should be. :innocent: fixed [image] triantares: Despite having Bullseye repositories, somehow Elive has a very old version of Firefox-esr which does not allow …

[image] Thanatermesis: fixed, can you confirm that the confs that needs to be copied back from the previous /etc dir Not that easy. :shocked: That would in my case require that the 'brother-printer-drivers' as well as the scanner drivers be installed. Alas they're not in my 'sudo apt list -…

so it will only work for drivers that doesn't requires extra installations (many drivers are already included), mmh, and I assume this doesn't pose any possible "conflict" problem when upgrading :thinking: otherwise should be not included

Yes, or they could've been added to '/etc/elive/packages_to_maintain_installed', I think. I forgot to add them, alas. 3.8.30 does have 'printer-driver-brlaser' already installed which has my DCP-1510 working OTOB but for the scanner functions requires additional 'brscan4' installation. Hence my th…

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