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Describes how to upgrade from LinuxMCE 1204 to 1404.

== Background ==
The normal way of upgrading between Ubuntu releases are the 'do-release-upgrade' command.

This does not work for LinuxMCE (most likely because the update tool disables 3rd party sources (like LinuxMCE) and we have to many dependencies to ubuntu packages for the upgrade to complete without breaking spectacular).

== How to upgrade ==

Edit /etc/apt/source.list and replace all 'precise' with 'trusty'

Run:
 sudo apt-get update

Then you will have to do some manual upgrades to avoid blowing the whole system away.
 sudo mkdir /etc/vdr/conf.d/
 sudo apt-get install lmce-md-meta vdr-plugin-iptv pluto-simplephone pluto-storage-devices liblinphone5 libmediastreamer-base3 libupnp6 vlc vlc-nox libsmbclient samba pluto-vdr vdr vdr-plugin-remotetimers vdr-plugin-svdrpservice=1.0.0-5~trusty1

If you are not using vdr, then you can drop the vdr-related packages from the above command.

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 sudo apt-get upgrade

 mb@dcerouter:/mnt/device/87/1204/var/lmce-build/git/linuxmce/src/Advanced_IP_Camera$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 Calculating upgrade... Done

 The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apache2.2-common asterisk asterisk-modules asterisk-mysql asterisk-prompt-de asterisk-voicemail foomatic-filters ghostscript-cups
  hpijs hpijs-ppds hplip jockey-common jockey-kde kcm-touchpad kde-config-touchpad kdelibs5 kdepimlibs5 language-pack-kde-en-base
  language-selector-kde language-selector-qt libdbd-anydata-perl libextractor-plugins libextractor1c2a libexttextcat0 libhpmud0
  libkdgantt2 libmuonprivate1 libpackagekit-glib2-14 libpackagekit-qt2-2 libperl5.14 libplasmaclock4abi3 librpm2 libsane-hpaio
  libsnmp15 libtaskmanager4abi3 libupnp3 libvlccore5 lmce-asterisk lmce-core packagekit-backend-apt pluto-asterisk pluto-vdr
  printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-hpijs printer-driver-postscript-hp smbfs tasks-icons vdr-plugin-xineliboutput
  xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740
  xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xz-lzma
 
 ...
 
 The following packages have been kept back:
  libsnmp-base vdr vdr-plugin-iptv vdr-plugin-remotetimers vdr-plugin-streamdev-client vdr-plugin-streamdev-server
  xineliboutput-sxfe

More to come.

Preliminary report:
tried do-release-upgrade - didn't succeed. Instead renamed all precise sources to trusty and ran apt-get upgrade, followed by apt-get dist-upgrade - and whole bunch of manual removal and reinstall ...