[kubuntu-users] Re: [kubuntu-users] Kubuntu distribution packages

[Farid Ansari]

*Will someone please advise how to upgrade KDE 3.5.5 to KDE 3.5.6.*
*I am so very anxious to do this upgrade but am not able to because I am a
newbie with Linux based distro's.*
*Any assistance given will be highly appreciated.*
*Farid Ansari*
*Karachi, Pakistan
*

On 3/22/07, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Donn wrote:
> > >> That's very bad. Dapper is LTS and many people use it because it's
> so.
> > >> Upgrading to Fiesty via Edgy - sounds like a reason to look other
> > >> distros.
> >That's *always* been the way it's run, both in debian, and ubuntu.
> >(snip)
> Cool, except I didn't write that.
>
> > I'm not terribly familiar with alternatives - but I dont think you can
> > upgrade suse 10.1 to 10.3 for eg, either - at least, not without solving
> > the dependancy problems yourself.  Of course, you can do that with
> > ubuntu too - but you cant be promised a trouble-free upgrade if you're
> > going to do that.
> As far as I know from Fedora-land, you either kept-up with each release or
> you
> stagnated in a gradually cooling lump of code until you could run nothing
> at
> all and your cries for help got lost on the wind ... :(
> It was harsh :) Hence my real hope when I read about Ubuntu and LTS to
> LTS.
>
> > You *will* be able to upgrade just fine between LTS releases.  That's
> > not what's being discussed here.  That situation is not yet applicable.
> >
> I am looking fwd to it! Of course, by then, I'll prob have my system in
> such
> an apt-get knot that I'll have to reformat anyway :D Ahhhhh.
>
> > > That's what I'm counting on and that's why I am starving myself of all
> > > the new versions of KDE and Firefox etc. in order to have a stable
> system
> > > for the longest period.
> >
> > I'm still not sure that dapper is so stable - ie, edgy's getting more
> > stable release updates, but am not about to argue this point.
> >
> No, I meant "stable" as in "dese packages ain't gonna change Bub - tough"
> :D
>
> Just correcting who said wot.
>
> Cheers,
> /d
>
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