Upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 11 Oct 2011 13:51:18 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Mark Fraser
> 
> <ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've just tried upgrading my laptop from Kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 (64 bit)
> > and encountered a few problems:
> > 
> > 1) update-manager wasn't installed.
> 
> Because that's the Ubuntu app, not the Kubuntu one. For Kubuntu, it'd
> be kpackagekit --updates that normally installs your updates.  Though
> kpackagekit --help doesn't give an option for getting the development
> version. This is probably since KPK isn't Kubuntu-specific (it's meant
> to be used for RPM-based distros too), but now makes me wonder how
> other Kubuntu users test the development version. I use "sudo
> do-release-upgrade -d" but I suppose not everyone does...  Might also
> be a moot point now that Muon is replacing it in 11.10 (but does Muon
> have such an option?)

Would it be worth putting that on the Kubuntu pre-release websites so that it 
is clear how to upgrade? I tried searching yesterday, but either got Ubuntu 
instructions or links to pages that don't exist!

> > 2) upon running update-manager -d from Kicker, I was asked for a
> > password. I typed in the password I set up when I installed Kubuntu
> > 11.04, but was told that it was incorrect. Which password is it asking
> > for?
> 
> That's odd. Did you use gksudo/kdesu at the beginning of that command?

The original instructions didn't mention anything about using kdesu or sudo, 
but I did try kdesu after pressing Alt-F2 and my password wasn't accepted.

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