10.4 upgrade vs install

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From: "Nils Kassube" <kassube at gmx.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:07 AM
To: <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: 10.4 upgrade vs install

> cherryfinals wrote:
>> I've been noticing a lot of complaints both on this list and several
>> others on upgrading from 9.10 to 10.4. Over the last couple of
>> years, I have learned a dear lesson. The lesson is that you should
>> have all your personal data and various configs on a secondary
>> drive. When a new system is released, never, ever use the update
>> function. Over the last five years I've been using Kubuntu, I have
>> yet to see an update work perfectly, first time. During this time,
>> I've installed and updated more than two dozen systems at home and
>> at my office.
>
> Well, that may be your lesson and I can feel your pain. My experience is
> quite the opposite to yours. I have used the upgrade option since about
> 7.04 and I have used it on many (10 to 15) machines with various
> hardware and varying amounts of installed packages. There were only a
> few cases of problems and the problems were no big issues (for me
> anyway). I never had to do a fresh install on those machines where the
> upgrade didn't work well.
>
> Therefore I would always suggest to first backup the important data and
> then _try_ the upgrade. If it really fails, you still can do a fresh
> install, but usually that step isn't necessary. The advantage of an
> upgrade is that you don't have to make notes of the installed packages
> because they are also upgraded to the new version. Overall it saves a
> lot of time.
>
> Furthermore there seem to be a lot of grub problems due to the new grub
> since 9.10. However that seems to only affect those with fresh installs
> which is another reason to try the upgrade first.
>
>
> Nils
>
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>Hi
I update my pcs before the final out (because i don't need to keep any 
datas)  and I wondered how lucid was so fine. I use more gnome because kde 
is not working as good... But I prefer kde because i like qt4 development.
I think update-manager is a good tool.