9.10 to 10.4 upgrade problem

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:51 -0700, don fisher wrote:
> I have tried both online and disk upgrades. I get the following message:
> 
> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
> The package 'ubuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the
> removal blacklist.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to address this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

In all seriousness, I suggest a backup of /etc, anything you may have
in /usr/local, and /home/<user(s)> and do a wipe and reinstall. In my
experience, 9.10 was really, really bad. It was the Vista of Ubuntu. I
upgraded to 10.04 2 months before it went gold, and was so much happier,
I can't even begin to express with mere words how much better it is.

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W. Scott Lockwood III