[mdlug] KDE 4

[David Lane]

I tryied to upgrade every other release rather than every time a new version comes out. Unless there is a compelling reason.

A lot of times there are issues that make it a very time consuming process.

David C. Lane 




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From: allen <amajorov at sbcglobal.net>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:41:44 AM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] KDE 4

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> David Lane wrote:
>  
>> Does anybody know if the Upgrade part is better? When I upgraded from 10.3 --> 11.0 I lost what was there.
>>
>> David C. Lane
>>    
>
> I never do "upgrades"  -- I tried that once... too many headaches.
>
> I keep /home, /opt, and /local on individual partitions,
> copy /etc to /local/etc_version_number, and then do a
> fresh install.  It takes a bit longer, but, I know when
> I'm done that I'm not going to have any surprises.
>
> Then I take the few local configuration changes that I've
> made and compare the files in /local/etc_whatever to those
> in the newly installed /etc, and merge the configuration
>
> For me, that mostly involves copying in my /etc/hosts,
> and some things involving ntp and a few other network
> services.
>  
I'll second the suggestion of doing a fresh install over an upgrade.

I did an Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 network upgrade, it took about eight hours 
and the install was a mess.

There were problems with everything imaginable - difficulties installing 
software, running previously problem-free software, problems shutting 
the system down and powering it up, peripherals not working and lots 
more - I threw in the towel and did a fresh install backing up, 
unfortunately, just /home.

Maybe the upgrade process will be smoothed out in the future but for now 
I'd say, fresh install.

Allen


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