Re: [PLUG] After dist_upgrade, kubuntu system won't boot

["Will Dyson" <will.dyson@gmail.com>]

On 10/29/06, sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:
> fwiw, i'm starting to hear a lot of noise about upgrades to edgy
> similarly sucking. the common thread in all of these seems to be (a) the
> use of apt-get instead of the ubuntu upgrade-nanny^H^H^H^H^Hmanager and
> (b) the presence of other non-ubuntu-installed packages such as
> automatix/easyubuntu.

I've had decent luck with using aptitude for updates of both Debian
and Ubuntu. It makes much better dependency resolution choices than
apt-get.

I do think that putting specific knowledge about the upgrade in
update-manager is the wrong way to go, but I can see the expediency of
it.

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Will Dyson
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