I haven’t seen a definitive assurance that crimson is ready to use for the Librem 15—though this one comes close—so I went ahead and made a full backup and dove in, using the Debian instructions as a model. (I’ve upgraded Debian systems dozens of times.)
It was very straightforward: change byzantium to crimson in /etc/apt/sources.list, then:
apt update
apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
apt full-upgrade
Everything’s new and fresh now. I actually reduced disk usage by 6GB after cleaning up like the Debian instructions suggest.
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Great! I shold probably do that on my Librem 14 also, that’s still on byzantium.
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I’ve been noticing that the GNOME apps don’t work as well now.
- Calc opens but doesn’t respond.
- Calendar burns about 25% CPU for no reason and takes a long time just to move an event to a new date. Events are often duplicated in the short-term summary sidebar.
I haven’t tried proposed-updates yet.
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crimson-updates-proposed didn’t have any GNOME app updates. I tried upgrading to dawn, but apt says that packages aren’t signed; not sure where to get an updated PureOS keyring.
I’ve had enough of PureOS anyway. I upgraded to bookworm. There were 25 packages that got small upgrades. There are 17 PureOS packages lingering about, mostly GNOME-related. On to trixie next…
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Upgrade to trixie was straightforward. Purging the “unused” packages was a little scary, when it asked if I really wanted to remove cryptsetup. The trixie GNOME Calendar works.
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