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

Goh Lip g.lip at gmx.com
Tue Sep 27 10:35:38 UTC 2011


On 09/27/2011 05:12 PM, Mark Fraser wrote:
> 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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Strange, I thought distribution upgrades now get rid of ppa'a automatically.

Regards - Goh Lip
ps; Myriam, where have you been?
     We kinda miss you.  :)

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