[xubuntu-users] Upgrading from Ubuntu to Xunbuntu

[Peter Flynn]

On 05/15/2013 09:27 PM, Bruno Benitez wrote:
> Hello Peter, you can follow http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce
> and end up with a pure Xubuntu desktop, then following a standard
> release upgrade should just upgrade xubuntu :)

Interesting, thanks. Do I assume from this that

a. the release upgrade function in upgrade-manager takes its distro
   pointer from the desktop setting? That is, upgrade-manager sees
   the Ubuntu desktop and knows you want an Ubuntu upgrade; if it
   sees an Xubuntu desktop it know you want an Xubuntu upgrade?

b. Does this method remove all the Ubuntu-specific packages?


On 05/15/2013 09:27 PM, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> In your place I would do a normal upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 -->
> 13.04. Then, when everything is updated and 13.04 is running
> smoothly:
> 
> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
> 
> That will install Xubuntu in the the same directories as Ubuntu,
> keeping you stuff in /home intact (not alongside as another distro)
> and you can run a complete Xubuntu. Just select it when logging in.

But that leaves the Ubuntu packages present, right?

I think my main problem is not understanding exactly what constitutes
Xubuntu, and that if there is something left over from a move to Xubuntu
it might affect performance or create conflicts in future.


On 05/15/2013 09:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Upgrading by Internet is possible, but it would upgrade all packages
> from the repositories, IOW you wouldn't remove "Ubuntu packages".

I'd want all packages upgraded anyway.

> Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I guess it's impossible.

It looks as if it will work, but my concern is that the Xubuntu
installer appears to make some optimizations based on the hardware that
it sees, and that these might be different from whatever the Ubuntu
installer does (or are they the same?).

The reason for doing this is that the machine is slow under Ubuntu
12.04, and all my other machines (older) are running Xubuntu very
happily :-)

///Peter