Menak Vishap wrote:Who said that downgrade is impossible? Just read documentation about pinning repositories up and down in Ubuntu.

What do you suggest I would call perversion or masochism. It is easier to make a live USB and do a clean install LTS version.

So, has anyone actually accomplished a "downgrade" from Neon user to Neon LTS edition without a fresh install?
If yes, please tell me.

Hi Arthilew,

Some time ago I switched succesfully from KDE Neon user edition to KDE Neon LTS ( by changing repos) after I tested it succesfully in a virtual machine.

But...I tried to do it again just now in a virtual machine (the switch from user edition to LTS) and this time , after upgrading 269 packages, the plasma version is still at 5.9.
So I have to agree with alideda, the safest way is to reinstall...

Regards

I had a user edition, I cloned partitions, on the cloned Linux partition UUID changed, changed fstab, etc grub. On the cloned Linux changed my repositories and got LTS version. This was possible because both versions have the same plasma, plasma 5.8.5.
I would like to propose to our users pinning shows how it's done, the example will do downgrade.

Regards

Thank you for your replies!

I've backed up my home folder (including dot files and folders, of course) and performed a fresh install with the LTS version.
Just copied my backup home folder into the new one and after a SDDM restart everything seems to work smoothly.

@arthilew
Congratulations, the right way and the safest way

Punky wrote:Add "[arch=amd64]" to /etc/apt/source.list.d/neon.list after "deb", before server, like this:

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deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.neon.kde.org/user/lts/ xenial main
deb-src [arch=amd64] http://archive.neon.kde.org/user/lts/ xenial main


that works, thank You