I ran into the same thing (dist-upgrade) when I tried to go from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10.....Then I found out what I did wrong and figured it was time to switch to Debian anyways, 'become a big boy', and all that. The only thing that I don't have working quite right on my laptop under Etch is the touchpad (no scrolling or 3rd button click stuff), every thing else was easy, including wifi and screen resolution. But there is always next weekend to get that done.....
<br><br>Anyways since people were sharing stories.....<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Chapin</b> <<a href="mailto:chapinjeff@gmail.com">chapinjeff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<br><<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Unborking Feisty Fawn To:<br>"Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <<a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org
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<br>Matthew Nuzum <<a href="mailto:matthew.nuzum@canonical.com">matthew.nuzum@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> > This distro team told me to say that anytime I get the opportunity. :-)<br>><br><br>Couldn't this distro team clip dist-upgrade from the apt-get source?
<br>Maybe a judiciously placed comment character or two?<br><br>-todd<br><br><br>And that is EXACTLY my problem with Ubuntu. No matter how good they are at what they do (and I do like the install and how many things "just work" that used to take effort...) the fact that they are Debian based, but don't bother to let you know when you are doing things the wrong way. "Apt-get install kde" breaks a LOT of things, and can leave a system unstable, but "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" downloads different versions of the same packages, and it doesn't break stuff. I am going to assume that dist-upgrade would break something as well. Being a big fan of Debian, I thought that it would be pretty easy to get used to Ubuntu, and I just finding my self doing things the "wrong" way. And the people in #ubuntu seem to take delight in pointing this out.
<br>Well, that's my little rant.<br><br>Ok I lied,, one further issue... the whole "download another iso" thing drives me nuts. Whatever happened to having options in an installer, anyway?<br><br>Jeff Chapin
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