On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 11:01:24AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick via Dng wrote

> I didn't have any issues on an upgrade a couple of weeks ago. Follow this
>
> "https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/excalibur/upgrade-to-excalibur"

Thank you; that's what I was looking for. Here's my distilled
summary. Does this look OK?

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Based on...
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/excalibur/upgrade-to-excalibur

exit X entirely; log in as root at a real text console
update and upgrade and usrmerge

    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
    apt-get install usrmerge

Change /etc/apt/sources.list to the following. Why the commented
"backports" line?

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main

The upgrade.

    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade
    apt-get dist-upgrade

if any packages fail, fix and restart

    apt-get -f install
    apt-get dist-upgrade

clean up orphaned packages

    apt-get autoremove --purge
    apt-get autoclean
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I'll be upgrading my newer "hot backup" machine first. It has a QEMU
VM hosting ArcoOS running an old OS/2 turn-based game. It uses VNC
"DISPLAY :1" (X is not running). I access it from my main desktop via
vinaigre. Can the QEMU VM keep running during the upgrade?

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1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data