how do I undo and start over?

[tom_d]

My Edgy to Feisty 'upgrade' is a total snafu-
how do I get rid of the bits and pieces of what did 'take', get back to vanilla Edgy and try it again?

[mwanstall]

Re: how do I undo and start over?

Depends how far the installation got I suppose!

You could try:

lsb_release -rd

To see what version of Kubuntu the system is running. If it's still the old version then I would have thought a:

sudo apt-get -f install

Should basically roll you back.

What exactly happened though?

[tom_d]

Re: how do I undo and start over?

what 'exactly' afaik happened is here
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082184.0

[tom_d]

Re: how do I undo and start over?

Depends how far the installation got I suppose!

You could try:

lsb_release -rd

To see what version of Kubuntu the system is running. If it's still the old version then I would have thought a:

sudo apt-get -f install

Should basically roll you back.

if it helps, here are the results

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 6.10
Release: 6.10

~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
xserver-xorg linux-headers-generic hwdb-client-kde
linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic python-qt4 python-dbus apt-index-watcher
ttf-arphic-ukai xorg linux-headers-2.6.17-10 linux-headers-2.6.17-11
kde-guidance-powermanager make bluez-pin linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
adept-common adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater apt
aptitude debtags hplip python-apt
Suggested packages:
dpkg-dev apt-doc libparse-debianchangelog-perl linuxprinting.org-ppds
hpijs-ppds hplip-doc python-apt-dbg
Recommended packages:
libqt-perl aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apt-index-watcher
The following packages will be upgraded:
adept-common adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater apt
aptitude debtags hplip python-apt
10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1071 not upgraded.
62 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/7066kB of archives.
After unpacking, 6861kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
Setting up debconf (1.5.13ubuntu1) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libssl0.9.8:
libssl0.9.8 depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
Package debconf is not configured yet.
Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libssl0.9.8 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2.5:
python2.5 depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8c-1); however:
Package libssl0.9.8 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python2.5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python:
python depends on python2.5 (>= 2.5.1~rc1); however:
Package python2.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
libssl0.9.8
python2.5
python
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)