Installing 14.10 beta release, and adding Plasma 5 PPA

[Harald Sitter]

sudo apt install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop


maybe we should put a kubuntu-desktop into the ppa to force migrate to
kubuntu-plasma5-desktop. alas, that only helps if one had
kubuntu-desktop installed anyway.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks, Installing 14.10 beta was easy, although my son did the
>> install on my big test laptop because he set up the SSD/HD system in
>> the first place. However, upon doing the first update && dist-upgrade,
>> then restarting, I notice that there were a few dead icons, and
>> unresponsive application windows.
>>
>> But I figured I'd probably kill it with Plasma 5 anyway, so what the
>> heck. Added the PPA: `sudo apt-add-repository
>> ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next-staging` then `sudo apt-get update && sudo
>> apt-get dist-upgrade`, and restarted. However, even though there were
>> no error messages in yakuake, there was no Plasma 5 desktop to log
>> into. Instead, there was a Plasma 4 desktop in even worse shape: no
>> networking.
>>
>> Hopefully I can purge the PPA in a console, but I doubt that will
>> bring back network-manager. The reason I think it's gone is that there
>> is no applet in the systray.
>
> I got networking working again, but can't seem to get the applet
> re-installed. So I was able to fix the desktop again, back to 14.10
> pristine, I hope.
>
> I'll test plasma5 as a liveUSB, I guess, as soon as I find some bigger
> USB drives!
>
> Valorie
>
> PS: If there are logs I can consult to help interested folks figure
> out what's wrong, just tell me what you want. -v
>
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