Upgrading 2.8 -> 2.9 on Mint 19.3

I am currently running 2.8 on Mint 19.3, this was all installed from an ISO that BeagleBrainz generously created for the community. What is the 'cleanest' way to upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9 from this configuration? thx

buildbot.linuxcnc.org
has all the info, disable existing repo, add the master repo, do an update and a distro-upgrade = done.

tommylight wrote: buildbot.linuxcnc.org
has all the info, disable existing repo, add the master repo, do an update and a distro-upgrade = done.

Wow, that simple. Not sure what time you knock off, it's 9:45pm your time I think. I will try this right now.

Mint 19.3 = Debian Stretch right?

txtrone wrote: Not sure what time you knock off, it's 9:45pm your time I think. I will try this right now.

Mint 19.3 = Debian Stretch right?

Yes and yes.
Mostly up till 3AM.

tommylight wrote: Mostly up till 3AM.

heh... that almost puts you in my timezone.

I am uninstalling packages. Does the glade3 need to go?

Are you on IRC?

tommylight wrote:

txtrone wrote: Yes and yes

Ok. got 2.9 installed and fired up Axis using my existing launcher and it worked. That was almost *to easy* ...

I did uninstall Glade3 to be on the safe side, since it popped up in synaptic when I searched 'linuxcnc'.

Since I had my base machine setup in 2.8 ... am I good to go with installing QtPlasmac? I was expecting more of a fight.

You should run Phill's script to install some stuff if you already have not done that, otherwise attack on all fronts !

tommylight wrote: You should run Phill's script to install some stuff if you already have not done that, otherwise attack on all fronts !

I got Qt loaded up, but I cannot get my tandem X axis to home.

In HAL watch I can see that joint 0 homes, but joint 1 is not.

Copy the joint/axis stuff from the old config ini file to the new one.
Do make a copy though, just in case.