LMDE

Intro

Notes while replacing my Debian by LMDE.
This included recovery of some settings so those are not notes for an install from scratch.

LMDE 201403

Installation

See http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Linux Mint has a nice graphical tool for manual repartitioning but not yet LMDE...
Install LMDE with manual partitioning

• it tells us we should mount target partition ourselves under /target
• crypsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 sda1_crypt # has to be the same ref as in the crypttab later
• mount /dev/sda1_crypt /target
• continue installation
• inject proper config in /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab
  First I mount /home in /home.old (mkdir /home.old) so I can access both fresh user homedir and old one, then move content of /home into /home.old and change fstab to mount on /home next time

Add Debian repos

LMDE is based on Debian testing but with some delay and I had quickly the issue that my chromium profile was saved by a chroimum version newer than the one in LMDE repos.

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list :

deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

We need some pinning to avoid jessie taking over the LMDE repositories. The problem is that they have both the exact same keywords:

$ apt-cache policy
[...]
500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest// testing/main amd64 Packages
    release o=Debian,a=testing,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main
500 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
    release o=Debian,a=testing,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main

So we can only differentiate by origin:
/etc/apt/preferences.d/debian-package-repositories.pref:

+Package: *
Pin: origin ftp.be.debian.org
Pin-Priority: 400

And to use Jessie repo e.g.:

apt-get install chromium/jessie