Hi,
I stayed with 8.04 since it came out now and wonder how to best procedd to 9.10 with kde3. should I upgrade to 9.04/kde3 first, then move on or directly go 9.10? Any known tripwires I should be sware of?
Dex
Hi Dex,
You can try going straight to 9.10 as long as the core system (kernel, udev, init, etc) allows it--I haven't tried so I don't know. KDE3 iteslf will work just fine with that jump.
When you do upgrade, follow the instructions here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Karmic#Upgrade%20from%208.04%20%5BHard...]
Let me know how it turns out!
Tim
On Sun, November 1, 2009 7:29 pm, Dexter Filmore wrote:
Hi,
I stayed with 8.04 since it came out now and wonder how to best procedd to 9.10 with kde3. should I upgrade to 9.04/kde3 first, then move on or directly go 9.10? Any known tripwires I should be sware of?
Dex
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Am Montag, 2. November 2009 02:37:23 schrieb Timothy Pearson:
Hi Dex,
You can try going straight to 9.10 as long as the core system (kernel, udev, init, etc) allows it--I haven't tried so I don't know. KDE3 iteslf will work just fine with that jump.
When you do upgrade, follow the instructions here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Karmic#Upgrade%20from%208.04%20%5BHard... %20Heron]
Let me know how it turns out!
Bad - Kubuntu borked in the first place, after the upgrade the system wouldn't even boot. Need a stable system right now (good thing I completely backed up 8.04), more tinkering postponed, if not cancelled (considering migrating to debain lenny, can't take canonicals bold moves like upstart tripping over their own feet).
I'll post my results should I change my mind and succeed in upgrading, tho it rather looks like a reinstall at the moment which I have about as much a head for as for a nazi row. (I haven't reinstalled since 2003 and I'm not willing to start now.)
Dex
I'll post my results should I change my mind and succeed in upgrading, tho it rather looks like a reinstall at the moment which I have about as much a head for as for a nazi row. (I haven't reinstalled since 2003 and I'm not willing to start now.)
You will find that installing the *buntus of today is much easier than any distro was in 2003. In fact, I don't "upgrade" [K]ubuntu installs, rather I fresh install and restore /home. It takes about half an hour and there is no danger of some wayward or forgotten PPA messing things up. I do keep track of which programs were installed though, and a quick apt-get installs them all on the new system as well.
Sometimes a user's config file will be incompatible with the newer version of the software, but that is very rare. In fact, in recent memory the only time I saw that was KDE 4.1 to KDE 4.2 had a plasma panel config problem. It was no big deal.
Am Donnerstag, 5. November 2009 08:12:10 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
I'll post my results should I change my mind and succeed in upgrading, tho it rather looks like a reinstall at the moment which I have about as much a head for as for a nazi row. (I haven't reinstalled since 2003 and I'm not willing to start now.)
You will find that installing the *buntus of today is much easier than any distro was in 2003. In fact, I don't "upgrade" [K]ubuntu installs, rather I fresh install and restore /home. It takes about half an hour and there is no danger of some wayward or forgotten PPA messing things up. I do keep track of which programs were installed though, and a quick apt-get installs them all on the new system as well.
Sometimes a user's config file will be incompatible with the newer version of the software, but that is very rare. In fact, in recent memory the only time I saw that was KDE 4.1 to KDE 4.2 had a plasma panel config problem. It was no big deal.
I considered this ... "upgrade strategy", but reinstalling is so Microsoft. Plus, there's a good deal of manual changesx in /etc like sane, fuse permissions, nfs setups etc etc.
I know that upgrading an entire distro is a tough job, but if htey offer an upgrade tool I expect it to at least give me a bootable system.
Well, like I said, I'll make up my mind on this - later.
Also still separate Compiz (of old version), which conflicts with normal Compiz from the repo resulting in no compiz working at all.
Open SuSE KDE3 team managed to make KDE3 to work well with current compiz.
On Wed, November 11, 2009 6:01 am, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Also still separate Compiz (of old version), which conflicts with normal Compiz from the repo resulting in no compiz working at all.
Open SuSE KDE3 team managed to make KDE3 to work well with current compiz.
Can you please file a bug at http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net regarding this? Otherwise I will forget about it! ;-)
Tim
This bug already reported: http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=109
This is because certain kde4 packages installed instead of kde3 ones: http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=111
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