[CoLoCo] Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released

[Walter Lamia]

I have heard this suggestion, and it partly helps, but not completely. I 
typically have non-standard repositories set up, and some apps installed 
directly from tarballs (Opera is one outstanding example), and maybe 
even proprietary purchased apps. The list also has to be purged of 
deprecated or replaced applications so it doesn't create conflicts.

Like I say, there needs to be a user-friendly, mostly hands-free upgrade 
path that meets the needs of 95%+ of users, with only as much 
intervention as absolutely necessary.


Chomafin wrote:
> You could always use :
> dpkg --get-selections > my-pkg-list
>
> This will list everything that you have installed and then to restore
> cat my-pkg-list > dpkg --set-selections
> sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> This will install all packages you had on your previous install.
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Walter Lamia 
> <walterlamia at buildingcoach.com <mailto:walterlamia at buildingcoach.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     I have to remark on this, it's one of my main Linux hot buttons.
>     Clean installing to upgrade is just not a viable option, once you
>     have installed a favorite set of non-standard applications. Going
>     back through and figuring out what has been installed, and
>     rebuilding, makes upgrading no better, and actually worse, than
>     M$. The Linux community MUST address this long-standing issue in a
>     user-friendly way.
>
>
>     Jim Hutchinson wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:27 AM, siblog <tehsiblog at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:tehsiblog at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         And I think you can just upgrade to the newest version by
>>         running "update-manager -d" or
>>         "update-manager --devel-release", that way you don't have to
>>         do a full re-install if you don't want to. I have done this
>>         for some of the past Alpha releases of Hardy Heron and it has
>>         worked great. Here is the link to the upgrade page -
>>         https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades
>>
>>
>>     I always do a clean install (I have a separate partition for
>>     /home). In my experience if you make too many changes the update
>>     doesn't go as smooth and I like cleaning things up anyway. My
>>     iMac install died anyway. Not sure why but fsck says something
>>     about something being shared and it dumps to command line and
>>     won't do anything. I think a clean install is called for. I just
>>     hope I can use a live cd to copy files off.
>>
>>     -jim
>>     -- 
>>     Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
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>
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Best regards,
Walter Lamia  <walterlamia at buildingcoach.com>
Marketing Director
Building Coach, Inc.  http://www.buildingcoach.com
ph-970.217.7165  fax-970.229.5840
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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