10.04 successfull horror story

[lziegler at unix.csbsju.edu]

I want to point my own experience with 10.04 upgrades. I first upgraded my
laptop and my server machine (both running 9.10) and everything went
smoothly. I was extremely pleased with 10.04 in every way.

However ... I then tried an upgrade of my main machine (kept at the
previous LTS 8.04). The upgrade seemed to go smoothly until near the end
when it said there was an error with an Adobe plugin.

I tried everything I could to fix the error and failed. I then decided to
live with it since I didn't really care about that plugin. However, this
did not work since I got a failure every time I tried to add a new
application - either with the GUI or apt-get at the command line.

I decided to try to remove the plugin, but that, too, failed. I tried to
upgrade the plugin, but that, too, failed.

I finally gave up and backed up necessary files and reinstalled from
scratch. Of course that worked but it involved the usual pain of
reinstalling packages that were not part of the standard distribution. I
am glad I upgraded to 10.04 since I think it is an excellent distribution,
but I am kind of annoyed by my problem.

This is just meant as sort of a warning. Check to see if you have any
Adobe plugins installed (I don't remember which it was) and, if so, you
might be better off removing them, upgrading, and, then, reinstalling.

Did anyone else have this problem?

Lynn