On Saturday 15 Oct 2011 11:53:26 Terry Coles wrote:
> I upgraded to Kubuntu 11.10 on Thursday evening and found that there was a
> serious breakage with KMail. This page explains the problem:
> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2.
Its worse, much worse. Having got some semblance of email working, I started
trying to actually *use* the machine. How foolhardy of me ;-(
First I couldn't browse other computers on my network; samba browsing failed
to connect. There aren't any seriously useful samba tools in KDE, so I've
always used 'system-config-samba', which is a GTK App. I went to the new
package manager, which is called 'Muon' and installed the package. After
about 2 hrs of dependency hell I installed Synaptic and did the job properly.
This thing is really, really, useless:
1. It didn't know that system-config-samba needed gksu.
2. It didn't know that gksu needed to be configured to use sudo by default
not, su. (Well maybe that's the distro packager.).
3. It didn't know that system-config-samba needed glade.
4. It didn't know that glade needed a whole stack of gtk libraries.
5. It didn't know that glade needed python bindings if it was to be used by
system-config-samba.
To top that off, it frequently goes brain dead for around 10-20 sec while it
updates its search database. Added to that, it will lose the search
capability completely after the first use and tells you that the search term
is not in the database.
Anyone using Ubuntu or its derivatives should immediately install a proper
package manager. I've done a clean install about once every 2 or 3 upgrades
and never had all this hassle before.
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Terry Coles
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