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

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 11:35:38 Goh Lip wrote:
> 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.
> 
> \
> Strange, I thought distribution upgrades now get rid of ppa'a
> automatically.

It does, but I've had problems with some PPAs that stopped the updater being 
able to find a successful update path. 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/792348

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