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

[Daniel Pittman]

Rob Collins <robcollins55 at aim.com> writes:

> I don't know what it is with the python packages Ian.  The adept
> auto-updater thingy says I've got about 15 (mainly python related)
> packages ready to upgrade but when i click to upgrade, it wants to
> remove other packages and I don't know how to tell which ones to keep
> and which ones to let it remove. 

Simple: if you don't care about any of the packages it wants to remove
accept the default offering. 

> Let me know if you have any idea on this problem or if you figure out
> answers to your python dilemma.  The new install also won't let me
> view easily in Konqueror the folders in root either.  I have to
> physically type /etc or whatever into the address bar.  With any other
> mouse clicking way I find it all hidden - any ideas on that?

This is a feature; edit the files /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/hidden-*
to alter the list of hidden files, or simple remove the '.hidden'
symlink from / and /media to disable it entirely.

As an aside this is a feature that GNOME has apparently both supported
and used, and I do think that it is a reasonable setting to assist new
users.

It might have been better advertised in the release notes, I guess, but
I doubt many people would have bothered to read that far anyway.  

Er, no comment on the folks in this discussion intended; back when I
wrote software for a living we knew that almost no one ever read the
release notes -- and I still don't. ;)

Regards,
        Daniel
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