Plasma 5 upgrade now or wait to final release?

[joemartin]

I am running 14.10. Is it best to wait to the final release or is it safe to do an in place upgrade now? If now, can someone explain the upgrade procedure?

Thanks for the help.

[vinnywright]

it is usually best to wate for release ,,,,,,,,and their is allways the possibility of a borked system after the procedure , at least 1 other user at this forum is experiencing problems from it.

if you can I would do a clean install.

that sead if you want to try it , first disable any third party PPA's you may have ,,,, then get 14.10 fully up to date

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

after this completes and possibly a reboot do

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

and follow the prompts.

good luck

VINNY

[claydoh]

From the last beta announcement, which leads to the instructions here:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/VividVervet/Beta2/Kubuntu

kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade

Is the correct command to use, though I don't know if there is a real difference from what vinnie mentioned.

The upgrade tool will automatically disable any ppas during the process.

At this point, it is pretty safe to try an upgrade, but it is so close to release that it might be better to wait, depending on your own needs

[vinnywright]

From the last beta announcement, which leads to the instructions here:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/VividVervet/Beta2/Kubuntu

kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade

Is the correct command to use, though I don't know if there is a real difference from what vinnie mentioned.

The upgrade tool will automatically disable any ppas during the process.

At this point, it is pretty safe to try an upgrade, but it is so close to release that it might be better to wait, depending on your own needs

dam those dev-devels changing things all the time ,,,,,,,,,my 14.10 is already mucked up with the plasma5 stuff you could add at one time ,,,,,(kf5-ppa's)
just for the heck of it I am going to try the do-release-upgrade -d on it and see how it brakes and crumbles before my eyes

VINNY

[claydoh]

dam those dev-devels changing things all the time ,,,,,,,,,my 14.10 is already mucked up with the plasma5 stuff you could add at one time ,,,,,(kf5-ppa's)
just for the heck of it I am going to try the do-release-upgrade -d on it and see how it brakes and crumbles before my eyes

VINNY

They both might call the same things, but the command has been around for a while.

I did the upgrade from my 14.10 with plasma 5 to vivid. It works just fine, but at the time there were a decent number of packages from the Next ppa that did not get upgraded due to versioning issues, and blocked updates. I had to find which ones they were, uninstall them (along with whatever apt wanted to remove with them), and then reinstall the correct ones. All the packages have "14.10" in the name, so the error messages made it pretty easy to do, just tedious. You may not have as much to worry about if many of the packages are able to supercede the leftover ppa ones with newer versions. I did mine right after the Next ppas went kaboom, and the versioning was much more similar then than now.

[vinnywright]

They both might call the same things, but the command has been around for a while.

I did the upgrade from my 14.10 with plasma 5 to vivid. It works just fine, but at the time there were a decent number of packages from the Next ppa that did not get upgraded due to versioning issues, and blocked updates. I had to find which ones they were, uninstall them (along with whatever apt wanted to remove with them), and then reinstall the correct ones. All the packages have "14.10" in the name, so the error messages made it pretty easy to do, just tedious. You may not have as much to worry about if many of the packages are able to supercede the leftover ppa ones with newer versions. I did mine right after the Next ppas went kaboom, and the versioning was much more similar then than now.

ya I have not been in my 14.10 in a month or so ........so it is all old stuff just after adding the next/kf5-PPA

VINNY

[vinnywright]

just did the sudo "do-release-upgrade -d" on the 14.10/next-updates-PPA install ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1753 packages upgraded/installed 1.1GB worth of it ..........all looks good so far , posting from it now

VINNY