Upgrade to breezy

yhotg ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Sat Sep 10 22:08:23 UTC 2005


HC Brugmans Wrote: 
> Ben Novack wrote:

> > On 9/10/05, Steve Myers <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

> > 

> >>Be smart and do a fresh install, I have seen so many users do an
> upgrade

> >>and that is why you see posts with numerous issues because of doing
> an

> >>upgrade.

> >>

> >>

> >>--

> >>Steve Myers

> > 

> > 

> > Well, some of the upgrade issues are because Breezy isn't finalized

> > yet. That's what testing is for; after all, with releases every six

> > months, it would be absurd to ask people to do a fresh install twice
> a

> > year. A user should only have to install their OS once, and be able
> to

> > upgrade safely and smoothly every time a new release comes out.

> > 

> Upgrade issues are mostly because of people

> 

> A upgrading when the development distro is still unstable.

> B users not having ubuntu-base/ubuntu-desktop packages installed

> C users using backports or extras

> 

> A _should_ be mostly solved.

> Especially B is something that is easily avoidable.

> using backports or extras is supported, but this is still not tested as
> 

> much as doing a straight upgrade, so take caution.

> 

> Hidde

> 

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but, some times u need to install a new version that isn't in the main
or universe

and u know that the old version has a lot of bugs 

and when u do the upgrade it unistall kubuntu desktop/kubuntu-base

then? what u do?

cheeky to say don't connect to internet and u will not have security
problems..., or what u just said, right?


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yhotg




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