Kubuntu instability...

[Derek Broughton]

Brendan wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 02:45, Branko Vukelic wrote:
> 
>> And no, I'm not going to try and track down the faulty bits, because
>> there are too many things that I have to keep track of right now.
> 
> Join the club, but until you do, it's hard to take you seriously.

I don't agree.  There are many programs I can't be bothered to try to help
fix.  When there are 5 ways to do something, I am not likely to even file a
bug report when only one of the 5 has a problem.  But...

>> No, you don't understand. I am NOT fixing anything. And I am not going
>> to. I just wanted to see if there are ppl who find it odd that my Kubuntu
>> works the way it does (i.e., bad).

Yeah, I find it very odd.  I've been running the bleeding-edge versions of
Ubuntu since Breezy was a pup, and I've always used aptitude, and don't
ever have this problem.  I'm not sure that it's not because of whatever
else you're using that wants to lock dpkg, though.  One reason I never used
synaptic was that it held the lock continuously, so I couldn't use aptitude
while synaptic ran.  I use aptitude and kpackage simultaneously, but I
don't _install_ with kpackage, and it only wants locks when it's
installing.
-- 
derek