On Mon 04 Oct 2021 at 15:25:23 (-0400), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:53:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > > > I did do a download from their site. But it's not clear to me where > > > > I need to put it and how to tell the package management software > > > > about it. > > > > > > Did you download the .deb file of it? You can use dpkg to install, but > > > it won't automatically take care of dependencies. I use gdebi-core, a > > > command line utility, that will install the .deb file correctly and > > > install any dependencies. You must be root to install. > > > > You can also use this command to install a locally-downloaded .deb > > package and its dependencies: > > > > apt install ./filename.deb > > Okay, I was using a bunch of diferent apt-get commands to do the upgrade. > This is part of why I'm getting confused, too many tools with very similar > names... :-) > > That *did* install it, and also gave me a really long list of stuff that it > said wasn't needed any more, but which I didn't deal with at all. I assume > that the next time around the apt-get autoremove command will take care of > that? It also downloaded one library to work with the package, no big deal > there. > > I don't see virtualbox in my applications menu. Rebooting, I am seeing a > *lot* of disk activity, don't know what it's doing there, during the boot > process. After it gets the whole way booted, everything is smaller on my > screen! This is _not_ good for these 70-YO eyes, > > I had thought initially that the program had not been installed into my > applications menu. But it turns out that they changed the name! Instead of > being in there under "virtualbox" it's now in there umder "Oracle VM > Virtualbox", which is why I missed it. > > Tried it out, it runs. I'm not going to start it right now as I'm currently > still running it on this laptop, and that would not go well. I guess I need > to deal with moving some files around, maybe do an rsync or something, and > then shut this one down. > > Incidentally the issues with Konqueror and Okular seem to have gone away as > well. > > Now the only thing I need to do is get things back to something like the > sizes I had before so I can read 'em. Hell, I can't even read the clock in > my taskbar! Any thoughts as to how to do that?
It would help people trying to follow what you are doing just to confirm at each stage which version you're now running. I /think/ you've got as far as stretch. So the main things to confirm as working are the specific points mentioned in the respective Release Notes. In stretch that would be, for example, the 4.9 kernel is finding everything, that X may be running as a user (rather than root) on the console it's started from, and that your ethernet or wireless connectivity is still good. (Changes were made to the kernel device naming.) Those are just a few I recall, but note they all relate to the OS rather than details in configuring third-party applications. Once that's done, time to read the next set of Release Notes. Note that even things like the best tool (apt-get or aptitude) to upgrade with may vary from release to release which, remember, are normally separated by a couple of years of tool development. Cheers, David.
