[mdlug] KDE 4

[Jim Broughton]

  I will chip in on this. I have always had to many problems with trying the
upgrade in place thing. It is always better to blow away your previous
installation and start clean. I do this with every NEW version of
Slackware that warrants installation. About every 2 version changes
for me. Then I upgrade. It's why I keep the home directory on a separate
partition. No hassles with my files. Some security upgrades however are
handled on an is that upgrade really necessary basis. Things that relate to
network security and network functionality are put in immediately.
  The nice thing about Slackware is that  source code packages are available
for at least the last 5 or 6 major versions. Don't like something
then take it out and go build the version you like with the automatic build
scripts. This is exactly what I will do with KDE/Qt if it appears to be 
necessary.

Jim

David Lane wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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>> David Lane wrote:
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>>> Does anybody know if the Upgrade part is better? When I upgraded from 10.3 --> 11.0 I lost what was there.
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>>> David C. Lane
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>> 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
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>> For me, that mostly involves copying in my /etc/hosts,
>> and some things involving ntp and a few other network
>> services.
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> I'll second the suggestion of doing a fresh install over an upgrade.
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> I did an Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 network upgrade, it took about eight hours 
> and the install was a mess.
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> 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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