[wellylug] WARNING: Kubuntu/Ubuntu Edgy Eft upgrade not easy

[Ian Sterling]

I hadda have help when I did my apt-get dist-upgrade to Edgy.  My
immediate problem was that X stopped working.  I had problems with
some packages just not apt-getting at all.  One of my friends gave me
his sources.list and that helped.  I still had a few problems with
X... until I actually fixed my xorg.conf file.  Heh.  But I still have
a whole lot of python packages that are being held back.  Not sure why
though.  However, since it's "working" at the moment, I haven't messed
with it.

I did DL the Edgy Kubuntu CD this afternoon and will install it here
at home too.  (my other install is at work)

Oh, and in case you were wondering, setting whether or not Thunderbird
sends out HTML email is under Tools -> Account Settings -> Server
Settings for the account -> Composition.  You can pick HTML or Plain
Text in there.

Since I no longer use Mutt for email, this isn't an issue for me at
least, anymore. :-)

--Ian...

On 10/31/06, Rob Collins <robcollins55 at aim.com> wrote:
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>  I am sorry my experience with Kubuntu was not helpful/useful to you Andre.
> Please remember that many of us on here including myself are not tech
> experts or programmers of perl/python etc.  I only vaguely know what you're
> talking about below and wouldn't know how to make thunderbird do that even
> if I wanted to.  I do just what works for me as that's all I can do, unaware
> of any broader philosophies that may be surrounding any given issue
> including technical email ones.  That is why I chose Kubuntu over other
> distros, seemed to be easiest to use without having to know too much.  I
> mainly only want linux to work for me and do not want to know what goes on
> behind the scenes unless it directly effects what I'm doing at any given
> point in time.  It is these occasions when I learn something new.
>
>  Rob Collins
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>  andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
>  Quoting Rob Collins <robcollins55 at aim.com>:
> So what you are saying is that because you lack the common
> courtesy of using the smallest common denominator (ASCII),
> or at least have BOTH ASCII and HTML as part of a multi-part
> MIME-encoded message if HTML is that important to you to express
> yourself better, others should be ditching their ISP?
>
> Good one mate :)
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