Upgrade to most recent packages

[ragreenburg]

I recently got a Librem 5 but I was using a Pinephone beforehand and upon running sudo apt update and then sudo apt full-upgrade on my first boot of the Librem 5, I noticed these packages are very old. For example, chatty is 0.7.3 which is well over a year old (for reference, my pinephone is running Chatty 0.8.4). Am I missing something here that needs to be done to get the most recent packages? So far all I’ve done is boot up the Librem 5, run the update commands and reboot.

[spacemanspiffy]

Short answer is that yes, the packages in byzantium are getting pretty old.

See these links for recent discussions on the subject:

When is Crimson coming?

They don’t even have it ready for desktop

Byzantium backports unofficial

Flatpak is installed by default in PureOS on the Librem 5, but only the pureos-store remote is included: flatpak remotes Name Options pureos-store system Flathub and other remotes, such as GNOME Nightly, need to be manually installed.

Crimson Experience

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.

Let's crowdfund some development to get PureOS Crimson ready for L5!

In regard to those numbered items: Purism is a for-profit company who has also specified a “social purpose.” It is still a for-profit company. It has never filed the required annual “Social Purpose Report”. The delivery has been a fiasco in terms of both “timeline” as well as honoring their promised refund requests. This is well known in the “Linux Communities”. See Louis Rossmann’s two videos on this. To be clear, although their mainboard is open, the phone is based on an SoC and …

[ragreenburg]

Thanks for the info. I might try putting Mobian or PMOS on it since it doesn’t seem like Crimson is coming soon.