Comments on: Worst Kubuntu upgrade ever http://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/ I believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:04:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Marco Fabbri http://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-62 Marco Fabbri Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:34:00 +0000 https://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-62 Update on the (Gnome) side of Ubuntu went very smoothly. Having to upgrade computers in different scenarios I experienced the whole range of upgrade options: update-manager, vi/update/dist-upgrade, dvd supported. The only things I got screwed were some Shorewall configuration files on a server: this dues to a syntax change in the Shorewall major upgrade from 2.something to 3.0, and a lacking packet replacing for the synaptics touchpad driver. I also uninstalled my custom built ubuntu jdk package and now I am succesfully using the ubuntu provided jdk package (Eclipse,Netbeans and everything else working fine). The same for VMWare Player. By the way the installation I am running on this laptop dates back to pre-warty times. Update on the (Gnome) side of Ubuntu went very smoothly. Having to upgrade computers in different scenarios I experienced the whole range of upgrade options: update-manager, vi/update/dist-upgrade, dvd supported. The only things I got screwed were some Shorewall configuration files on a server: this dues to a syntax change in the Shorewall major upgrade from 2.something to 3.0, and a lacking packet replacing for the synaptics touchpad driver.
I also uninstalled my custom built ubuntu jdk package and now I am succesfully using the ubuntu provided jdk package (Eclipse,Netbeans and everything else working fine). The same for VMWare Player.

By the way the installation I am running on this laptop dates back to pre-warty times.

]]> By: Giulio Piancastelli http://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-61 Giulio Piancastelli Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:13:16 +0000 https://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-61 Truth be told, I was indeed impressed by how clean and crispy the new KDE seemed to be. And I thought about doing a reinstall from a CD, too. But I was really too much upset by how I have been screwed (reinstalling the distribution would mean to also reinstall the ADSL modem support) that I decided I wouldn't mess with Linux again for a few days, even if just that morning Konqueror (the only application that will be really missed, along with Kopete) saved my life once more. Regarding apt-update versus dist-upgrade, I used Adept as the instructions told, so I don't really know how the upgrade was managed on the lower level. Truth be told, I was indeed impressed by how clean and crispy the new KDE seemed to be. And I thought about doing a reinstall from a CD, too. But I was really too much upset by how I have been screwed (reinstalling the distribution would mean to also reinstall the ADSL modem support) that I decided I wouldn’t mess with Linux again for a few days, even if just that morning Konqueror (the only application that will be really missed, along with Kopete) saved my life once more.

Regarding apt-update versus dist-upgrade, I used Adept as the instructions told, so I don’t really know how the upgrade was managed on the lower level.

]]> By: Giacomo http://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-60 Giacomo Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:08:27 +0000 https://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-60 btw, remember when I told you that apt-update is more reliable than dist-upgrade? I wasn't lying :P btw, remember when I told you that apt-update is more reliable than dist-upgrade? I wasn’t lying :P

]]> By: Giacomo http://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-59 Giacomo Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:06:06 +0000 https://gpiancastelli.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/worst-kubuntu-upgrade-ever/#comment-59 Clean the situation by doing a backup of your /home dir and nuking the root partition, then install the new version. As a matter of fact, you should have two partitions for / and /home, so it should be trivial to reinstall. Unfortunately, despite the good job done by the Kubuntu people, KDE is still a second-class citizen in the Ubuntu world. Clean the situation by doing a backup of your /home dir and nuking the root partition, then install the new version. As a matter of fact, you should have two partitions for / and /home, so it should be trivial to reinstall.

Unfortunately, despite the good job done by the Kubuntu people, KDE is still a second-class citizen in the Ubuntu world.

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