Installing 14.10 beta release, and adding Plasma 5 PPA

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> sudo apt install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop
>
> maybe we should put a kubuntu-desktop into the ppa to force migrate to
> kubuntu-plasma5-desktop. alas, that only helps if one had
> kubuntu-desktop installed anyway.

So you are saying I should have done this rather than adding the
staging PPA? If so, entirely my mistake. If we want people testing
kubuntu-plasma5-desktop rather than installing Plasma5 from the ISO,
we should say so in our messaging, such as
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/1410-beta-2

Valorie


> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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