Is it safe to upgrade these?

[wayne]

I have upgrade several times using update manager. So far no issue.


Now update manager have several update version. such as

Thunar 1.6.1-1
iceweasel 18.0 b3-1 ( from experimental repos)
oracle java 1.7u10 ( from third party repos)

I am holding on to the update.
I wish to know
1. Would network browsing still work with thunar 1.6.1-1?
2. any issue using iceweasel 18?
3. any issue using iceweasel / chromium/ chrome with java 1.7u10?

thank you.

[machinebacon]

Hi Wayne,

good you asked. I have experienced no issues with Thunar 1.6.1 (we have now tabs there, finally)
Iceweasel 18 seems to be from their Aurora release channel, that's something like what could be called 'Nightlies" - generally, Aurora is safe to use, though it might happen that some of your add-ons are not *yet* supported (though technically they *would* work)
About Java 1.7 I cannot tell you much, I just know that for Java they fix security leaks.

I would say go for it, and if you experience problems, we can revert safely.

Good luck and no fear ;)

BTW please remember - if you use the update manager - to click on the little triangle under the 'progress bar' that shows you the terminal output of what is going on during upgrade. Another option, if you want to do these upgrades manually, issue the command

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upg

in terminal. It does the same thing but is a bit more verbose.

[dkeg]

I had upgraded with no problems. Don't remember seeing the Java update, but Thunar had no issues, at least none that I would have noticed in the 30 minutes i was this morning. Iceweasel 18 is fine. I can say that if you're a Pentadactyl fan, that will not work. Even their nightly builds don't work yet. Never fear though, Vimperator works.

nice alias -> 'upg'. I use just 'up' . I'm balls out like that.

[machinebacon]

Hi dkeg,

yes, we have upd for apt-get update and upg for the apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Sometimes the user only wants to run 'upd' (adding a keyring, ie.)
We also have 'ins' for apt-get install and 'purge' for ... well, guess ;)

[wayne]

Thanks machinebeacon and dkeg for your reply..

OK, I got in a new habit of using bbqsnapshot to create an iso, save it at my data partition, so that if something goes wrong during update/ dist-upgrade, at least I can return to old, working system by installing from last iso.


did a full dist-upgrade, and playing with it now, so far

1. iceweasel 18 is working OK.. :)

2. thunar 1.6.1 is working OK too :)
it has slightly different menu, something like the old gnome2's..

then I tried to use networking browsing and happy to say it works!..

3. java 1.7_10 works too . :)

hi dkeg,

Don't remember seeing the Java update

just want to say this is from third party repos ( so that i have easy time to install/uninstall)

[dkeg]

@machine, yeah some good aliases you have. I carried over most of mine though. I use 'get' for install. You're right though, prob best to differentiate b/t updating and upgrading.

[machinebacon]

Thanks for the feedback wayne

dkeg: About aliases, remember we have both zsh and bash as available shells, so if you switch have a look at .zshrc_local respectively.