Plasma update?

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 22:32, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> 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.

As Bo said, you're not being specific enough. We can't work out what
is, or is not, happening.

What popup box? What update option?

 So, not clear how to actually do a Kubuntu update.

Step 1:

Do a full upgrade as described in Bo's message, and amplified in mine.

Reboot. Check it works.

Do another upgrade to make sure nothing is outstanding. Watch the
output closely. If it says any packages were held back, upgrade those
too.

Once that's done, run

sudo -s
do-release-upgrade

> Might it be safe to do an Ubuntu CLI release upgrade, then reinstall the
> new Plasma desktop stuff to get "Kubuntu"?

This makes no sense. When you do an upgrade, you're upgrading
everything, desktop and all.

> Or, would it be better to
> do do an Ubuntu CLI NON-release upgrade, then reinstall the  new Plasma
> desktop stuff to get "Kubuntu"?

No. You can't anyway, but that makes no sense.

You are asking:

"I have a pint of beer. I want to drink half of it. Can I drink the
bottom half of the glass, then come back and drink the top half?"

No. If you drink the glass, you drink it all. You can't drink just the
bottom half.

>  Does the new Plasma desktop REQUIRE an
> Ubuntu CLI release upgrade to operate properly?

It doesn't work like that.

You can add an external repository and install _some_ newer versions
of KDE from that onto _certain_ releases. That is what I described in
my article.  But currently that only applies to 22.10, nothing else.


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