New Linux user here, investigating Zorin as a possible replacement for Windows 10. I installed Zorin 17.3 Core, alongside Windows 10, on a spare notebook. Before I did anything substantial with Zorin version 18 was released. Two days ago the Beta version of automatic migration was made available for testing. Today I tried, many times, to follow the instructions, without success. I have tried entering "gsettings set com.zorin.desktop.upgrader show-test-upgrades true" both with and without the prefix "sudo". On every occasion the system doesn't seem to do anything! If anyone has any suggestions I will be grateful. Otherwise I will wait a few weeks and then perform a clean install version 18 Pro.
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The upgrade tool is currently available for Core, Education, and Pro editions.
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When You type it in and press Enter and the next Line is only the normal Terminal Line with You User Name, this is normal. When You type it in, You don't get a Confirmation. the Confirmation is the normal Line that You get.
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Ponce-De-Leon: Thank you for the information. However, when I say "the system doesn't seem to do anything" NOTHING happened and I am still running version 17.3 Core.
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So, the System is freezing?
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Hi.
I think all you need to do now is go to System Tools from the Zorin menu and select upgrade zorin OS then you should get the normal upgrade screen with the upgrade options shown in red rather than blue because it's still in testing mode.
Then you have to run the upgrade from this screen. If you don't do the gsetting line in terminal this will just say 'notify me' in blue.
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I think means the upgrade didn't happen, so Strongbow was back where they started, still running Z17.3 Core. I hope that is correct understanding.
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I will wait for the Answer.
I think it would assist if Strongbow was to clarify exactly the steps taken.
My understanding of the process is that you have to
- Do the 'gsettings set com.zorin.desktop.upgrader show-test-upgrades true' command in terminal. This will NOT show anything other than returning to the command line because all you are doing is telling the upgrader to show test upgrades rather than fully tested upgrades.
- Select Zorin Menu - System Tools - Upgrade Zorin OS. This will open the upgrade screen as usual. However, if you haven't run the gsetting command it will show 'Notify Me' in blue. If you HAVE run it then it will show 'Upgrade' in red as per my previous screenshot.
So my question to Strongbow is, after running the gsettings command, what do you get in the zorin upgrader when you run it, 'Notify Me' in blue or 'Upgrade' in red?
For additional info. If you run the gsettings command and put 'false' instead of 'true' it will switch back to 'Notify Me' in blue from 'Upgrade' in red.
HTH
I've previously successfully upgraded 17.3 to 18.
Run No.2. I'm doing another run on a clean (new) VM, just for the lolz i guess.
Feedback:
- Trivia: upgrade window (before hitting 'upgrade') could easily fit on the screen without scrolling, but it isn't set to do so. I don't like having to scroll when the information would comfortably fit on my screen.
- Upgrade didn't work "oh no! something has gone wrong" (i guess it's still a problem) - Use the keyboard icon to input ctrl+alt+f3 (f1, f2 didn't get me to a terminal) and i get an unusual login prompt - enter username/password.
- Follow the process (linked below)
- geoclue.conf still requires human choice
- Eventually works per the procedure.
note: these instructions don't say to use sudo - is that intentional? It doesn't work without sudo for me.
In a root shell "sudo" should not be required.
Perhaps it's because i'm not able to get there through grub due to the VM.
You were probably not in a root shell. I can't test it with the upgrade because I'm using Zorin Lite in my VM, but in my VM via Virtualbox, I can call up the root shell in the grub menu and then don't need sudo for the update/upgrade commands.
There's no grub menu that happens in my install, it just goes straight into the OS. So i let it, then choose an alternate tty via the Boxes menus.
Ahh, I changed that in my VM, sorry. If you want Grub to be displayed at boot, change the value in the file /etc/default/grub
at line
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
from
hidden to menu,
then save the file and run
sudo update-grub
It is preferable if grub is displayed so that it can be accessed more easily in case of problems. Because of this I have changed the default setting.
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Super handy tip. Thanks 
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Just a thought on upgrading from 17.3 to 18.0.
My NAS runs Linux and they advise upgrading a freshly booted system, might be worth a reboot before looking to do the upgrade.
Thoughts?
Peter
PS. I successfully updated a VM today, upped virtual hard drive to 40GB, ran updates, rebooted and then did the upgrade. Of course this was pretty much a bare-bones install.
Still waiting to upgrade my bare metal system which is heavily modified