upgrade to 11.04 fails cause it wants to remove update-manager-kde

[Michael Hirsch]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.  I'm sorry I took so long to read
the responses.

Yes, I had the backports PPA for getting the latest KDE.  I think it must
have been this that kept me from upgrading.  I was never able to get a gui
tool to work.

Ultimately, I used the commandline using do-release-upgrade.  This ended up
removing all my KDE packages.  When I was done, my system would have been
pretty unusable, but fortunately I was clever enough to install
kubuntu-desktop before I rebooted.  That reinstalled almost everything and
my desktop came up fine.

It looks like Mark's advice was good.  If I had known about ppa-purge it
probably would have solved my problem.  I'm having the same trouble on my
kids laptops--I'll try it there.

Thanks again for your help,

Michael

2011/9/27 Mark Fraser <ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk>

> **
>
> On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 10:05:19 Mark Fraser wrote:
>
> > On Monday 26 Sep 2011 17:27:08 Michael Hirsch wrote:
>
> > > Since 11.10 is about to be released, I thought I should upgrade to
> 11.04,
>
> > > but I can't. I have a pretty much stock install of Kubuntu 10.10. I may
>
> > > have upgraded KDE using the ppa packages.
>
> > >
>
> > > When I try to upgrade it says that it can't because it needs to remove
>
> > > update-manager-kde, but it isn't allowed to.
>
> > >
>
> > > Earlier it said that it wanted to remove kubuntu-desktop. I worked
>
> > > around this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop were
>
> > > not installed.
>
> > >
>
> > > So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems but
>
> > > still have that problem.
>
> >
>
> > Have you got any PPAs enabled?
>
>
>
> Sorry, I didn't see the top of your post. You may have to use ppa-purge to
> get rid of some of those Kubuntu PPAs before doing the upgrade.
>
>
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