[xubuntu-users] Upgrading from Ubuntu to Xunbuntu

[Ric Moore]

On 05/15/2013 04:43 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 09:27 PM, Bruno Benitez wrote:
>> Hello Peter, you can follow http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce
>> and end up with a pure Xubuntu desktop, then following a standard
>> release upgrade should just upgrade xubuntu :)
>
> Interesting, thanks. Do I assume from this that
>
> a. the release upgrade function in upgrade-manager takes its distro
>     pointer from the desktop setting? That is, upgrade-manager sees
>     the Ubuntu desktop and knows you want an Ubuntu upgrade; if it
>     sees an Xubuntu desktop it know you want an Xubuntu upgrade?
>
> b. Does this method remove all the Ubuntu-specific packages?
>
>
> On 05/15/2013 09:27 PM, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
>> In your place I would do a normal upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 -->
>> 13.04. Then, when everything is updated and 13.04 is running
>> smoothly:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
>>
>> That will install Xubuntu in the the same directories as Ubuntu,
>> keeping you stuff in /home intact (not alongside as another distro)
>> and you can run a complete Xubuntu. Just select it when logging in.
>
> But that leaves the Ubuntu packages present, right?
>
> I think my main problem is not understanding exactly what constitutes
> Xubuntu, and that if there is something left over from a move to Xubuntu
> it might affect performance or create conflicts in future.
>
>
> On 05/15/2013 09:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> Upgrading by Internet is possible, but it would upgrade all packages
>> from the repositories, IOW you wouldn't remove "Ubuntu packages".
>
> I'd want all packages upgraded anyway.
>
>> Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I guess it's impossible.
>
> It looks as if it will work, but my concern is that the Xubuntu
> installer appears to make some optimizations based on the hardware that
> it sees, and that these might be different from whatever the Ubuntu
> installer does (or are they the same?).
>
> The reason for doing this is that the machine is slow under Ubuntu
> 12.04, and all my other machines (older) are running Xubuntu very
> happily :-)

You can have all the desktops you want, at the same time. They all use 
the basic Ubuntu package and build from there. Just upgrade Ubuntu, 
install the XFCE desktop and you'll enjoy a modest speed gain from the 
less demanding desktop. Heck, if you have the disk space, you can also 
install LXDE as well and then have Lubuntu available at login time, all 
residing on the same partition and under one Ubuntu roof. You just pick 
and chose at login which to use during that session. I find it useful if 
something is going wacky to switch desktops to see if the problem 
persists. Or, if I do something to "improve" xfce and wind up hammering 
it, then I login to Unity and fix from there.  Ric



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