{"id":466,"date":"2021-11-12T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/?p=466"},"modified":"2021-11-12T13:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:54:04","slug":"elementaryos-6-refresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.vandragt.com\/technology\/elementaryos-6-refresh\/","title":{"rendered":"elementaryOS 6 refresh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I refreshed the olde Thinkpad to <a href=\"https:\/\/elementary.io\/\">elementaryOS 6<\/a>, and thought it would be useful to me and others to document the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As they don&#8217;t support an upgrade from elementaryOS 5, I <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/svandragt\/repoman\">backed up my repositories using repoman<\/a> and paved the rest, as I use this laptop for side-projects and have a <a href=\"https:\/\/syncthing.net\/\">sync solution in place<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first install resulted in a black screen (perhaps it went into standby and did not respond to mouse or keyboard presses), but a restart continued the installation successfully. Further OS setup was straightforward and simple. I thought about creating a <code>\/home<\/code> partition but as I was happy with my migration process I decided to go with the convenient default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first app to install I had to get from FlatHub, which is nicely integrated. This first flatpakref loaded on the second try and installed using the integration included in the OS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Syncthing&#8217;s introducer feature allows a device to introduce shares to connected devices and this helps setting up the shared folder containing my new-device scripts. It&#8217;s important to untick &#8220;Receive only&#8221; so that it&#8217;s a two way sync.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This post will be updated as more thoughts become available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I refreshed the olde Thinkpad to elementaryOS 6, and thought it would be useful to me and others to document the process. As they don&#8217;t support an upgrade from elementaryOS 5, I backed up my repositories using repoman and paved the rest, as I use this laptop for side-projects and have a sync solution in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-elementaryos","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}