Ubuntu Classic in Ubuntu12.04

[NoOp]

On 05/10/2012 06:50 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 11/05/12 02:07, NoOp wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> And then of course, you'll need to spend the next two-three days 
>> reinstalling  & retuning packages that the Ubuntu gods decided to
>> rip out when upgrading from 10.10 to 12.04. You know... small
>> things like grsync, synaptic, cups-pdf, nmap, etherape, acroread,
>> wine, vmware, virtualbox, opengis, dia, sun-java jre, adobe
>> flash, *all* of your printers, etc, etc. And that's just so you
>> can get back to work & experiment with Unity like a game during
>> off time if you wish. :=)
> 
> Is this a general thing about 12.04 (i.e. that it deletes all user 
> packages when upgrading)?
> 
> I just upgraded from 11.04 -> 11.10 & all went OK. None of my user 
> installed packages were removed. Or is just coming about from
> upgrading from 10.10?

I suspect that whatever you had that Ubuntu didn't like was either
removed in 11.04 to 11.10, or you didn't have it installed to begin
with. Did you have any of the above listed installed?
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