[ale] New Year's Resolution: Upgrade to Kubuntu 9.10

scott boss scott at sboss.net
Mon Jan 4 11:41:26 EST 2010


Why not do an inplace upgrade?  Upgrade in place to 9.04 using apt
dist-upgrade then upgrade to 9.10 using the same method.

Sent from my mobile...

On Jan 4, 2010, at 11:33, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Okay, my main development machine is  currently running Kubuntu  8.10.
> I booted the 9.10 CD and got sound + even PulseAudio to work (!).  I
> can find solutions to re-enabling <ctrl><alt><backspace> and disabling
> the evil kdm(1) on 9.10 pretty easily.
>
> I'm thinkin' the best plan is to wipe & install fresh ( my ${HOME} is
> of course on its own partition ). I can make dpkg(1) give me a list of
> currently installed packages ( dpkg --get-selections ), and I have the
> stuff I've installed from source in a directory under my /home
> partition.  My laptop can provide connection to the Mighty Internet if
> I run into serious trouble.
>
> Am I missing anything? Anyone know how much pain my 8.10 (KDE 4.1)
> desktop config files are gonna give a 9.10 (KDE 4.3) install?
> Has anyone done qt3 development on kubuntu 9.10, which ships with QT4?
> What about going from FireFox 3.0.3 to FireFox 3.5? Do the Nvidia 3D
> drivers work OK ( I'm running some programs which require OpenGL
> support on a GeForce 6200 )?
>
> -- CHS ( Always behind.. )
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