On Tuesday 11 Oct 2011 13:51:18 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Mark Fraser > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've just tried upgrading my laptop from Kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 (64 bit) > > and encountered a few problems: > > > > 1) update-manager wasn't installed. > > Because that's the Ubuntu app, not the Kubuntu one. For Kubuntu, it'd > be kpackagekit --updates that normally installs your updates. Though > kpackagekit --help doesn't give an option for getting the development > version. This is probably since KPK isn't Kubuntu-specific (it's meant > to be used for RPM-based distros too), but now makes me wonder how > other Kubuntu users test the development version. I use "sudo > do-release-upgrade -d" but I suppose not everyone does... Might also > be a moot point now that Muon is replacing it in 11.10 (but does Muon > have such an option?)
Would it be worth putting that on the Kubuntu pre-release websites so that it is clear how to upgrade? I tried searching yesterday, but either got Ubuntu instructions or links to pages that don't exist! > > 2) upon running update-manager -d from Kicker, I was asked for a > > password. I typed in the password I set up when I installed Kubuntu > > 11.04, but was told that it was incorrect. Which password is it asking > > for? > > That's odd. Did you use gksudo/kdesu at the beginning of that command? The original instructions didn't mention anything about using kdesu or sudo, but I did try kdesu after pressing Alt-F2 and my password wasn't accepted. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org
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