Installing 14.10 beta release, and adding Plasma 5 PPA

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, Installing 14.10 beta was easy, although my son did the
> install on my big test laptop because he set up the SSD/HD system in
> the first place. However, upon doing the first update && dist-upgrade,
> then restarting, I notice that there were a few dead icons, and
> unresponsive application windows.
>
> But I figured I'd probably kill it with Plasma 5 anyway, so what the
> heck. Added the PPA: `sudo apt-add-repository
> ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next-staging` then `sudo apt-get update && sudo
> apt-get dist-upgrade`, and restarted. However, even though there were
> no error messages in yakuake, there was no Plasma 5 desktop to log
> into. Instead, there was a Plasma 4 desktop in even worse shape: no
> networking.
>
> Hopefully I can purge the PPA in a console, but I doubt that will
> bring back network-manager. The reason I think it's gone is that there
> is no applet in the systray.

I got networking working again, but can't seem to get the applet
re-installed. So I was able to fix the desktop again, back to 14.10
pristine, I hope.

I'll test plasma5 as a liveUSB, I guess, as soon as I find some bigger
USB drives!

Valorie

PS: If there are logs I can consult to help interested folks figure
out what's wrong, just tell me what you want. -v