I proceeded with the release upgrade today, overall it went pretty well, but some software that I had installed manually in the 22.04 got uninstalled instead of upgraded. This concerns notably Kdenlive, Xsane and Gimp. Of course reinstalling it was an one-liner, and the configuration files haven't been deleted (so for example all the customisation I had in Gimp was preserved), but why did they get uninstalled and why did I have to reinstall them manually remains a mystery for me. And I prefer knowledge to mysteries, so if anyone can explain to me why that happened, I would be very grateful.
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Funky dependencies during the upgrade, I think. Not sure the exact culprit, but it most likely is from the ordering of the package installs perhaps. I suspect that it may have just been safer to have this happen than to try and fix it (aka break other things in the process), else it didn't happen to everyone, and wasn't reported. -
it did that to me as well. My DEB install of Firefox was gone and I think the other one was ksnip that was gone. I reinstalled ksnip from Discover.Comment
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claydoh - Thank you for your answer!
vanadiumboy - Concerning the Deb install of Firefox, it is normal, unless you have set the environmental variable RELEASE_UPGRADER_ALLOW_THIRD_PARTY to 1. I did that and my Firefox and Thunderbird .deb installs were preserved.
Edit 25/10/2024, 7h30 AM:
Upon running sudo apt autoremove I lost Thunderbird as well... Of course sudo apt install thunderbird reinstalled it from Mozilla's PPA (and no e-mails or configuration were lost in the process).
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