Karmic with dist-upgrade?

[Zerix01]

Is there anyway to install the Karmic alpha by doing a dist-upgrade with apt-get rather than a clean install?

[Rog131]

Re: Karmic with dist-upgrade?

That was the way i did the upgrade at the pre-alpha stage. It should work but note that (> Karmic Release Schedule):

August 27th - Upgrade Testing begins

So there could be bumps .



> Topic: Karmic Release Schedule, Plans, KDE 4.3

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Karmic with dist-upgrade?

You will need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and change all instances of "jaunty" (or whatever distribution you are using) to "karmic". Also, if you installed mediabuntu, or any other repository, in a .d directory, you will need to edit that, too.
You may encounter several instances of the dist-upgrade process halting on errors, usually because of a dependency problem, or more than one package trying to write an icon somewhere. You may need to use the "apt-get install -f", "dpkg --configure -a" and "dpkg -i --force-overwrite" commands to get through it (if you are using apt-get to do the upgrade). I had to do that several times, but in the end the upgrade worked.
Also, if you are using proprietary video drivers, don't forget that the kernel upgrade will almost certainly break them, and you will have to reinstall them.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Karmic with dist-upgrade?

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Also, if you installed mediabuntu, or any other repository, in a .d directory, you will need to edit that, too
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That's what I thought, but changing "jaunty" to "karmic" did not work, and I cannot find any references to Karmic on Medibuntu.

What I did do was use the selected "wget" commands and "dpgk -I ..." commands to install those 64 bit packages individually, which seems to work on my 64b Karmic partition.

[Rog131]

Re: Karmic with dist-upgrade?

With the Medibuntu i have been using:

Alt+F2 and kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
adding:

## Medibuntu - Ubuntu 9.10 "karmic"
## Please report any bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free

GPG key:

wget -q [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg[/url] -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Here the Karmic Medibuntu repository has been working from the May:

Log of sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs ffmpeg libdvdcss2 mplayer <etc...>
Thu May 21 11:10:47 2009

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...

The following NEW packages will be installed:...

Get:2 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/free libdvdcss2 1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1 [36.8kB]
Get:3 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free libamrnb3 7.0.0.2-0.1medibuntu1 [138kB]
Get:4 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free libamrwb3 7.0.0.3-0.0medibuntu1 [115kB]
Get:5 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free mplayer 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu19+medibuntu1 [4446kB]

Get:7 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free w32codecs 20071007-0medibuntu4 [14.3MB]
Get:8 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free non-free-codecs 4medibuntu1 [2828B]
Get:9 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free mencoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu19+medibuntu1 [3774kB]
Get:10 http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic/non-free mplayer-doc 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu19+medibuntu1 [2490kB]
...