How to switch from Antergos to EndevourOS

[joekamprad]

@israuor

will packages I leave installed from Antergos repo be updated from new repos (endeavourOS or arch) after removing the antergos repo?

Only if they do exist with the same name at Archrepo or AUR, if name differs they will be a simple orphan and not updated.

[israuor]

where to get the newest endeavouros-mirrorlist? https://github.com/endeavouros-team/mirrors/releases/download/mirror2/endeavouros-mirrorlist-1-6-any.pkg.tar.xz gives 404

[JR29]

https://github.com/endeavouros-team/mirrors/releases/download/mirror2/endeavouros-mirrorlist-1-10-any.pkg.tar.xz

[A4orce84]

Hello Everyone,

Can someone offer any quick steps (or links to a document) on how to take a proper backup/snapshot before running through this process? I want to make sure I have something to rollback to in case I hit issues with the migration steps.

Any help / feedback / etc. would be greatly appreciated. TIA!

Thanks,
Asif

[joekamprad]

partimage?

[A4orce84]

@joekamprad

partimage

It looks like partimage does not support my filesystem, EXT4. Any other recommendations?

TIA.

[manuel]

Basically dd could do the job, after your reboot with the USB installer stick, and have an extra drive where you can copy everything with dd.
Even though dd is simple to use, it is also dangerous because you need to be absolutely sure not to overwrite your existing system with it.

And clonezilla could be easier. Here are some other alternatives: https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-cloning-tools/

And read this too: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_cloning

[joekamprad]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dd#Create_disk_image

Creating compressed image with dd

[His_Turdness]

Worked like a charm! I had already uninstalled and gotten rid of anything Antergos related, so skipped the step where Antergos packages needed to be listed and deleted, but followed the guide otherwise precisely.

Enjoying my Endeavour now.

[zoli62]

Yesterday after a long wait, according to your description, I switched from Antergos Linux to EndevourOs. Thanks for the guidance. Everything went smoothly except installing the grub2 theme because it could not be found, but this should be the smallest issue.

[joekamprad]

grub theme can not be installed or is not showing up on boot ?

ls /boot/grub/themes/EndeavourOS/theme.txt

sudo cat /etc/default/grub

[zoli62]

Thanks, but in the meantime I have solved the problem with grub-customizer. Before that, I did everything as you described, but the background of the grub was black because that theme could not be installed so I copied it manually to the right place, but it didn’t help either.

[joekamprad]

what give you: pacman -Ss grub2-theme-endeavouros ?

[zoli62]

Thanks, the theme is now properly installed.

[Marcellino]

@breakdown

Antergos to EndevourOS or do I need a clean install or does it happen automatically?

Solved by joekamprad in post #51

How To: done it like this: –> tested again with Antergos openbox install, and it works like a charm… keep exactly the lineup from top to bottom, or it will fail in the middle! let commands run till the end, special on the keyring stuff, if it will be interrupted, you will have screwed pacman! …

Many thanks for the time to put this up. It helped me a lot, Just had the unfortunate experience of the git server being down when getting the key. But when it wa up again, everything whent smooth. Only thing I changed is making my own about- linux file in the home directory.

[MrEd]

Will following Joe’s post #51

How to switch from Antergos to EndevourOS

How To: done it like this: (before Antergos was gone offline!) → tested again with Antergos openbox install, and it works like a charm… keep exactly the lineup from top to bottom, or it will fail in the middle! let commands run till the end, special on the keyring stuff, if it will be interrupted, you will have screwed pacman! this is only a lineup how you can do this and no officially supported method! it can leave stuff and will need you watching and knowing/get knowledged what you…

If I follow those exactly, will this work for KDEPlasma as well?

My apologies for asking, but I need to be sure bc it says openbox and I really don’t want to get into something that will break my install and spend an entire night getting everything running again.

I knew the day would come when I needed to do it, but this being my everyday system, it makes me nervous so I’d rather be thorough in the “double-check-by-asking department”

[ringo]

osrelease grub part repository & keys as things as openbox plasma is depended what you are using…

if you added the osrelease repo’s keys and grub , and removed the antergos part , pacman -Qm will show the alien packages probably antergos part of it… but the linkx is a good one

[joekamprad]

This should work for all DE installed from Antergos, if you do not have exotic changes implemented

[Marcellino]

Another advantage for Plasma, lightdm isn’ t used but sddm. So no fuss in that area.

[MrEd]

Can this be done without yay?

yay seems to be broken so I’ll wait until someone advises on what to do.

$ sudo pacman -S yay    
warning: yay-9.2.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) yay-9.2.0-1

Total Download Size:   1.93 MiB
Total Installed Size:  6.31 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                            [##############################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                          [##############################] 100%
error: yay: signature from "Antergos Build Server (Automated Package Build System) <admin@antergos.org>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/yay-9.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

$ yay -Syu
yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory