Currently doing a Dapper to Edgy Kubuntu upgrade

Post #271,383 by broomberg 10/26/06 1:27:15 PM Reply	Currently doing a Dapper to Edgy Kubuntu upgrade Slow. 39% of core downloaded - 1h46m into the process. Grrrr. Of course, most likely I'm gonna trash my system.
Post #271,392 by bepatient 10/26/06 2:53:50 PM Reply	Is there a compelling reason? Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
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Post #271,395 by Steve Lowe 10/26/06 3:02:44 PM Reply	Running it, too. I have dapper running in a parallels VM on my mac - it's currently upgrading itself to edgy. -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #271,455 by Steve Lowe 10/27/06 8:11:20 AM Reply	Finished without issue. Starting on the desktop shortly. -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #271,396 by crazy 10/26/06 3:27:38 PM Reply	Me too Download done, now packages installing...
Post #271,398 by crazy 10/26/06 3:38:04 PM Reply	Re: Me too How many ram disks is it going to create! Again and again! Setting up linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic (2.6.17-10.33) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
Post #271,399 by crazy 10/26/06 3:38:11 PM Reply	Re: Me too How many ram disks is it going to create! Again and again! Setting up linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic (2.6.17-10.33) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
Post #271,400 by crazy 10/26/06 3:44:50 PM Reply	Hmmm - needed 2 rounds of dist-upgrade --fix-missing Now doing: apt-get install kubuntu-desktop python-qt3 python-kde3 ubuntu-minimal
Post #271,401 by crazy 10/26/06 4:01:31 PM Reply	Hosed my X. Not time to play. going back to last one
Post #271,409 by crazy 10/26/06 5:10:11 PM Reply	Well, that was a mistake! Reading the open bugs shows a lot of problems with ATI cards. Reinstalled previous version, put back my network configuration, pulling down Firefox right now. Sometimes it's nice to start clean again. Of course, this desktop was created about 3 weeks ago, so not a lot of time for cruft accumulation.
Post #271,447 by bepatient 10/27/06 4:04:36 AM Reply	Seems to have worked fine here. Haven't seen any issues yet. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #271,450 by hnick 10/27/06 6:38:27 AM Reply	Ok. Given a possibly dangerous upgrade... What does it get you? Is there some particular benefit worthy of risking a reimage of ones machine?
Post #271,452 by pwhysall 10/27/06 6:55:46 AM Reply	All upgrades are potentially dangerous. Any sensible answer to your question would really just involve a large cut and paste from the website, so it's probably just as easy to direct you to [link\|https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseNotes\|https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseNotes] Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator]
Post #271,456 by hnick 10/27/06 8:30:34 AM Reply	Yes, obviously. Thanks for the link. As the previous version isn't seriously broken, I was wondering what compelling reason there might be to upgrade. I tend to have a jaded view of advertising, so I was asking users why they were undertaking this. If it's just "Oooh, newer! Shiny!", then I'm not terribly interested in screwing with it. If it does something significantly better, than I may entertain the switch. I probably should have been more clear initially.
Post #271,459 by crazy 10/27/06 9:38:57 AM Reply	I try to maintain "current" when I can. My home PC is running an old broken version of Mepis. Lots of things won't install, requiring more current libs, which in turn refuse to install due to conflicts. So, my work PC is a relatively new Kubuntu install, 1 version back, when means upgrades should go pretty seemless (I hoped, I was wrong). That way I maintain a greater likelyhood of installing new stuff. That's OK. I'm waiting on a couple of LCD screens. When they show up, I'll juggle out the video card and install fresh. It takes me under 30 minutes to put my desktop in working order (at work), since almost all I use is remote access to other systems.
Post #271,461 by bepatient 10/27/06 10:17:46 AM Reply	Better font handling at least on my machine. Other than that, and general upgrades across all packages...I don't know if I can identify one single compelling reason to do it. BUT, I used the software updater method...and it was really simple. You have to call the update manager from the CL and add the -c switch...and off you go. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

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