Breezy -> Dapper - adept wants to remove 295 packages

[Tim Penhey]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 03:37, James Gray wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2006 09:39 am, Tim Penhey wrote:
> > Including:
> > 	adept
> > 	amarok
> > 	kdebase
> > 	kubuntu-desktop
> >
> > and many more...
> >
> > wtf?
>
> You'll find that they need to be removed because the dependency hierarchy
> has changed.  They should be reinstalled as part of the upgrade.  Also some
> of the package names may change meaning the old packages need to be removed
> and replace and not just "upgraded", even though effectively it's the same
> thing from the end-user's perspective.
>
> If you're worried, just make a list of the packages you need to (adept,
> amarok etc) and do the upgrade.  See if they reappear on the other side. 
> If not, install manually "apt-get install <package>" etc.
>
> I went through a similar "WTF" episode when I went from Hoary->Breezy.  It
> was all good once apt/dpkg had finished working out the dependencies :) 
> Have faith grasshopper! :P
>
> Cheers,
>
> James

Well it might have worked, except we got a powercut halfway through the 
upgrade and it pretty much stuffed the install.  Won't boot into X anymore, 
and problems with many packages even though it says all is updated.

I was just lucky that I had installed Dapper beta 1 on a different partition 
about two weeks ago.  So now using that, just have to get it back to the way 
I like it :)

Tim