On 24/10/05, Wiehe, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Hoary box to Breezy. I followed the > instructions but it didn't go very smoothly. I lost X despite making sure I > had the required desktop packages etc., I got a load of errors with the > xorg-common package. > > I eventually got it back by doing a command-line install of the ubuntu-desktop > package, but it was painful. Unlike my move from Warty to Hoary which was > completely painless.
My upgrade was similarly less-than-trouble-free, but so was moving to Hoary from Warty. In each case, I had to repeat the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade several times, dpkg-reconfigure X and work through at least one blockage. For example, I had to remove a troublesome package before the dist-upgrade would continue in Hoary and --force-overwrite another going to Breezy. But then both were a cakewalk compared with upgrading one Windows version to another, though those are obviously years apart. Plus I have an annoying habit of tinkering with my system constantly, so I've always assumed many of those glitches were my own fault. Also, I dist-upgrade each time about a month before official release (well after the software is frozen and before the preview release). In other words, it hasn't been painless, but I'm still amazed it works. I wasn't a debian person before (TAMU->Slackware->Red Hat), so I don't know how Ubuntu compares. Is it better or worse going from one Debian release to another? -Eamonn -- ubuntu-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
