Unintended update to KDE 4.3 RC1

[YellowHammer]

I added the backport to allow me to get an updated AMAROK. I forgot to uncheck it after that and on my next round of automatic updates my system updated kde to the 4.3 rc1. It kinda crippled my desktop, not completely broke it. Very difficult to get around and can't resize any windows, konsole doesn't work, etc.

I dropped down to root console at boot and installed xfce in order to get on the internet so that I could ask for a rescue.

How do I go about uninstalling the rc1 and going back to kde 4.2?

[Rog131]

Re: Unintended update to KDE 4.3 RC1

I added the backport to allow me to get an updated AMAROK. I forgot to uncheck it after that and on my next round of automatic updates my system updated kde to the 4.3 rc1.

You are not the first...

The latest version of the Amarok 2 (for the Jaunty) could be found from the Ubuntu backports / Unsupported updates > Topic: Amarok 2.1 Released

How do I go about uninstalling the rc1 and going back to kde 4.2?

- you could remove the KDE 4.3 RC1 packages, packages with the version number 4.2.95.
- disable the Kubuntu backports PPA
- after this install the kubuntu-desktop.

Package: kubuntu-desktop

This package depends on all of the packages in the Kubuntu desktop system.
Installing this package will include the default Kubuntu KDE installation.

Earlier:

> Topic: How do I revert to a previous version of KDE?
> Topic: downgrading kubuntu intrepid back from kde 4.2 rc1 to kde 4.1.4

[barbolani]

Re: Unintended update to KDE 4.3 RC1

Exactly the same happened to me a week or so ago. But to be honest, apart from a couple of Plasma crashes, I've had no problems with 4.3 RC1 and I'm staying with it. Before reverting back to 4.2, could you open bugs in Kde.org describing what did not worked well? That would increase the chances of those problems not affecting everybody when the final release arrives.

[YellowHammer]

Re: Unintended update to KDE 4.3 RC1

I couldn't get much of anything done in KDE.