when running system upgeade , gui password , gui upgrade comes up and i click ok , terminal starts then goes away then it starts a loop gui upgrade, terminal , gui upgrade, terminal , and so on.
so i ran in a terminal:
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade --no-install-recommends
and this is what i get :
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade --no-install-recommends
[sudo] password for klein:
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb-multimedia.org bullseye InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://HTTPS///repo.sparkylinux.org unstable InRelease
Hit:5 http://HTTPS///repo.sparkylinux.org core InRelease
Hit:6 http://HTTPS///repo.sparkylinux.org nibiru InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
26 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
sparky-apt-unstable tela-icon-theme
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libtagc0 libthunarx-3-0 sparky-aptus sparky-aptus-extra sparky-codecs
sparky-desktop sparky-office sparky-upgrade sparky-webbrowser-installer
sparky5-apt thunar thunar-archive-plugin thunar-data
thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman ultra-flat-icons
The following packages will be upgraded:
ffmpeg firefox-esr ghostscript gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 libavcodec58 libavdevice58 libavfilter7 libavformat58
libavresample4 libavutil56 libgs9 libgs9-common libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
libntfs-3g883 libpostproc55 libssl1.1 libswresample3 libswscale5
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 linux-image-5.10.0-8-686 linux-image-686 linux-libc-dev
ntfs-3g openssl sparky-aptus-upgrade
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
base-files libxcb-util1 lightdm-gtk-greeter sparky-apt sparky-artwork
sparky-core sparky-desktop-data sparky-desktop-openbox sparky-info
sparky-plymouth sparky-theme-root
26 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 11 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 153 MB of archives.
After this operation, 42.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
it is asking for an answer i typed n
in a previous install i typed yes aand lost all my icons on my right click menu (jgmenu) and half the icons in the submenus
There is a mistake in your Sparky repos:
http://HTTPS///repo.sparkylinux.org
has to be:
https://repo.sparkylinux.org
and there is missed repo as well, if you are using Debian Bullseye repos, you should use Sparky Po Tolo reps as well:
https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/repository
https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/upgrade_higher_release
thank you pavroo
:-\ i don't know what i was thinking.
i used the wrong script i have an Apt-Cacher NG server.