[ubuntu-in] Upgrading to Ubuntu-9.04

[Onkar Shinde]

2009/4/25 Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <abhishek.amberkar at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM, tabankg <khabor08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry,onkar again I am wrong in my explanations.
>> I mean to say that ,by upgrading to Ubuntu-9.04 from Ubuntu-8.10,it
>> will definitely erase the previous version.But I want all those stuff
>> downloaded,e.g. PICASA(in .deb format),pictures,files-straight way the
>> data files(MUSIC,PICS.,*.DEB FILES) to remain intact.
>> My desktop arrangement,should be kept intact...
>>
>
> I had Mplayer installed on Kubuntu 8.10. The upgrade to Kubuntu 9.04
> through alternate cd removed it. The procedure I followed for upgrade
> is
>
> * apt-cdrom add
> * aptitude update
> * aptitude safe-upgrade
>
> Here I got the broken system so I tried nothing but
>
> * aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> Here I got the properly working Kubuntu but without some packages like Mplayer.
>
> What can be the reason behind this?

That is because you didn't change the references to intrepid in
/etc/apt/sources.list to jaunty. The version of mplayer you had
installed was depending on old version of some library. This library
was removed as part of upgrade and hence mplayer was also removed.


Onkar