My Kubuntu 7.10 Upgrades so far
I've upgraded 3 machines to Kubuntu 7.10 already. I've upgraded all of them using the online method. My gaming desktop was the smoothest. That is also the machine that I've hacked up the least, so that is to be expected. I used adept_manager and upgraded to the RC version of Kubuntu a week before 7.10 was released officially. My personal laptop was a nightmare while trying to use adept_manager. It was never able to really even start the upgrade process. It kept giving me an error about how some other process must be using the apt database. Which was total crap. I even turned off the auto download of security patches. I had read that some other people that got that error did that and it worked for them. Not for me. Finally after running "sudo dpkg --configure -a", few apt-get clean up commands and a reboot, I did finally get it to work... kinda. The process kept on hanging with adept_manager. Additionally my laptop was confused as to what Ubuntu distro it was (ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu). I reinstalled the kde-desktop packages to fix that. Then I finally just gave up and went all command line on its butt. I replaced my sources.list file with the default settings for Kubuntu 7.10 using the sources.list generator web page. Then I just ran the command line apt-get commands:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get dist-upgradeIt took a good 5 hours to download everything, because it was now Thursday and everyone was downloading the new version by then. But it eventually worked. With my work laptop, I gave it the adept_manager route only 1 try and when that failed I did the same command line process that I used for my personal laptop and it worked perfectly. The pretty gui stuff is nice, but there is nothing like the simplicity of the command line. If I've learned nothing else over the last 11 years with Linux, its that.Overall, I'm very happy with 7.10. Frankly, Windows has never been this easy to upgrade and it sure hasn't been this Free either! The newest 7.10 thing I'm excited to try out is the Broadcom wireless card firmware that will allow me to migrate off of ndiswrapper. I'll probably do that this next weekend.
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