Print Page - After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10

Title: After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10
Post by: molens on February 11, 2023, 11:50:24 AM

How can I upgrade stable to semi rolling 6.6.?

Title: Re: After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10
Post by: AxL on February 11, 2023, 01:18:02 PM

You seem to have no idea what you're talking about. (https://i.imgur.com/Zaes50z.gif)

Sparky 6.6 'Po Tolo' (debian 11 'Bullseye') is the stable release of debian.

(https://i.imgur.com/uZvkZOF.gif)

Title: Re: After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10
Post by: molens on February 11, 2023, 01:35:06 PM

To clarify I downloaded and installed the Sparky semi-rolling version. but now I seemed to have the stable version. What can I do to get the semi-rolling version?

Title: Re: After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10
Post by: pavroo on February 11, 2023, 02:49:35 PM

So what exactly Sparky version you have?
Show an output of:

Code Select

cat /etc/os-release

Title: Re: After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10
Post by: molens on February 11, 2023, 03:02:03 PM

PRETTY_NAME="SparkyLinux 6.6 (Po-Tolo)"
NAME="SparkyLinux"
VERSION_ID="6.6"
VERSION="6.6 (Po-Tolo)"
ID=sparky
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://sparkylinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://sparkylinux.org/forum/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://sourceforge.net/p/sparkylinux/tickets"

Title: Re: After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10
Post by: pavroo on February 11, 2023, 04:01:11 PM

So you downloaded and installed Sparky 6.6.
If you want Sparky rolling, you have two options:
1. download and make fresh installation of Sparky rolling
or
2. upgrade Sparky 6 to 7 following the wiki guide:
https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/upgrade_6_to_7

Title: Re: After installing Sparky Linux 6.6 semi rolling I get stable kernel 5.10
Post by: molens on February 11, 2023, 04:04:56 PM

Thanks for your answer!! You have helped me very much.

SparkyLinux Forums

Installation & Upgrade => System upgrading => Topic started by: molens on February 11, 2023, 11:50:24 AM