Re: [SLUG] Re: Edgy Upgrade

[David Gillies <daveg@xxxxxxxxx>]

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bill wrote:
> Haven't as yet tried an Edgy Upgrade from Dapper as my 4 Dapper
> installations are working fine ( installed from LiveCD).

I've done dist-upgrades on every version of Ubuntu that has come out,
including Edgy.

What I usually end up having to do is:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
apt-get dist-upgrade

Regardless of whether I used 3rd party repos of not, ubuntu-desktop
always seems to get removed during the dist-upgrade. And lots of
critical things are depended on by ubuntu-desktop I've found (or a
dependant on a dependacy or whatever).

The other day I dist-upgraded from breezy straight to edgy, with the
only real hitch being that the volume-id package wouldn't install (it
clashed with some package that I can't remember).

Ended up having to do a dpkg -i --force-all volume-id-<bla>.deb and then
away it went.

I think if most people did an "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ; apt-get
dist-upgrade" after the initial dist-upgrade, there'd be a lot less
broken ubuntu installs around.

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dave.

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