Plasma update?

[rikona]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:10:11 -0800
rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:02:32 +0100
> Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:48:40 -0800, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> >   
> > >> > Do I need to do the
> > >> > update?      
> > >> 
> > >> Yes you do.    
> > >
> > >Again, THANKS! In the past I've been hanging on to LTS versions as
> > >long as possible. Looks like with KDE I need to do each LTS update.
> > >Just to be clear, 'update' now gets both Ubuntu on 22.04.1 LTS plus
> > >the KDE Plasma 5.24 from '22 - correct?
> > >
> > >Would it be worth while to update Plasma more frequently, or can I
> > >hang on to that for a couple of years?    
> > 
> > I am a bit confused on this discussion about updates...
> > 
> > I am under the impression that you need to do this in order to move
> > to the next release of Ubuntu:
> > 
> > do-release-upgrade
> > 
> > I am doing this weekly to keep my system up-to-date:
> > 
> > sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y
> > 
> > But it does not move me to any new release, just keeps installed
> > packages and linux firmware up-to-date as far as the distribution
> > goes...
> > 
> > So please state the exact command you are actually discussing here.
> >   
> It was not a command, and nothing has been done yet. We are not trying
> to fix an update. I'm actually now doing backups before an update.
> 
> It got started with a small popup window [from a snap??] suggesting an
> update, and the info in that window did not correspond to the usual
> Ubuntu update timing. I was confused about that and asked here, and
> Liam cleared it up well - Kubuntu needs updates more often than
> straight Ubuntu - a different schedule for KDE. If I had just Ubuntu,
> I would NOT need to do a new release. But, perhaps the new KDE
> requires Ubuntu to be updated as well?
> 
> It seems both KDE and Ubuntu will be updated to a new release if I
> click on the 'Upgrade' box in the popup window. Not clear, to me at
> least, that both would be done by the usual CLI instructions. Do you
> know that KDE would also be done via the usual CLI you describe
> above? Just trying to understand...
> 
> Rik
> 
Well - an interesting result. After doing backups, I clicked on
'update' in the popup box, to supposedly do an update. Got another
window stating, at the top, "Update failed for the following reason."
But the window was COMPLETELY blank - no reasons, no nothing.

So, not clear how to actually do a Kubuntu update. Saw something like
this online, solution was to do a completely new Kubuntu install from
scratch, add your backup data to that, then reinstall all the
non-Ubuntu software you previously used. Horrible solution, from my
view.

Might it be safe to do an Ubuntu CLI release upgrade, then reinstall the
new Plasma desktop stuff to get "Kubuntu"? Or, would it be better to
do do an Ubuntu CLI NON-release upgrade, then reinstall the  new Plasma
desktop stuff to get "Kubuntu"? Does the new Plasma desktop REQUIRE an
Ubuntu CLI release upgrade to operate properly?

All suggestions greatly appreciated. 

Rik