Tried another upgrade in vbox, apt did disagree with me
Decided to have a look at the lxde release in vbox too, really nice. So nice that I just might give the 64 bit a try on my desktop later. Enabled the openbox menu in the lxde session to get to the most used applications faster. Wanted also to give microwatt yet another try in vbox, a couple of things that I forgot to check out. And the lesson learned from all this back and forth is that the installer really works like a charm.