ubuntu feisty experiences

Ric Moore wayward4now
Sat Dec 9 18:30:32 PST 2006


On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 09:00 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Man-wai CHANG <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> > From Breezy or Dapper to Edgy?
> >
> 
> That was Dapper to Edgy. I had to wait for an intermediate iso and reinstall.
> 
> Meanwhile, the current experiment (Edgy to Feisty) is a no go thus
> far. Probably the most common failure in early upgrades is the fact
> that they haven't coded all the dependancies correctly. Feisty is
> upgrading to KDE/QT4, but some of the package dependancies leave some
> KDE3 stuff dangling. So, I'll have to wait a week or two until they
> fix the dependencies.
> 
> Right now the system fails to start KDE (not too surprising since the
> updates were incomplete). At least it runs in console login mode, so I
> should be able to continue the upgrades later. I'm curious to see how
> it is with KDE4.

Apparently FC6 isn't the only Disto with a dependencies hell. <chuckles>
You gotta admit that to get as much working together as they do, is a
plum miracle. Ric





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