Crimson Experience

[Dlonk]

I installed ‘landing’ on a Librem 5 to try that, and I’m getting the following:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 librem5-base : Depends: flatpak but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: gnss-share but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: pcscd but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: systemd-resolved but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: systemd-timesyncd but it is not going to be installed
 librem5-gnome-base : Depends: gnome-initial-setup but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: gvfs-backends but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: phosh-core but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: pureos-store-plugin-flatpak but it is not going to be installed
                      Recommends: pureos-flatpak-defaults but it is not going to be installed
 librem5-gnome-phone : Depends: chatty but it is not going to be installed
                       Recommends: haegtesse but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Is this the current Crimson experience, or is there some way to unblock this and have it work?

Edit:

I switched landing to crimson and added crimson-security and it fixed everything, so maybe nevermind.

[FranklyFlawless]

No, updating and upgrading packages are normal, other than that Dawn is also targeted for landing now. If you are having success with changing repositories, you can also consider adding crimson-updates and crimson-updates-proposed as well.

[Pirate_Praveen]

Their website was down only for a few days. You can find images at InstallingDebianOn/Purism/Librem5Phone - Debian Wiki

[fch]

is it possible to upgrade like upgrading debian versions, just chaging the repo?

[FranklyFlawless]

Yes, but troubleshooting is required:

Crimson Experience

I strongly advise a fresh flash rather than change repo’s and upgrade. When I changed repos and upgraded the phone never behaved quite right again. It also would not create the .scr properly on kernel updates making it impossible to enter the decrypt password and would boot loop.

@OpojOJirYAlG

If you mount the Librem5 on a PC via jumpdrive you can mount and browse to /boot and there is a .scr file I cant remember the name of, rename it to .scr.bak and rename the older .scr file to not have the date or whatever in the name and it should then be able to boot normally.

[fch]

hmm I see will it be available once it’s ready to upgrade?

[FranklyFlawless]

Yes, there will be a public announcement from Purism.

[fch]

Any ETA? Like 6 months? 1 year?

[FranklyFlawless]

No formal ETA, but monthly blog articles will be published by Purism as Crimson progresses towards a stable release:

PureOS Crimson Development Report: July 2024 – Purism

The next one will likely be at the beginning of September.