Yes, just do plan A!
On 8/7/26 12:06, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Before doing anything, I'll backup /home (approx 30 gig tbz) and /etc
> to a usb drive. Also how do I get a list of packages that I've
> manually installedd via apt... without also getting the gazillion
> dependency libs they pull in? The least garbage/verbose I could find
> via Google was...
>
> (apt-mark showmanual | while read -r pkg; do apt-cache rdepends --installed "$pkg" | sed -ne '1,/^Reverse Depends:$/d;{p;d}' | grep -q . || printf '%s\n' "$pkg"; done)
>
>
> First question; is Excalibur fully stable or are there any gotcha's?
>
> Plan A) Is it possible to upgtade in place?
>
> Plan B) Nuke and repave, followed by restorung from USB drive.
>
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