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

[Rob Collins]

Thanks Daniel.

The problem is I don't know if i do or don't want the packages it wants 
it remove.  I don't know enough yet to know if they are integral 
essential packages or not.  With the hidden problem, I have enabled root 
login to xserver kde desktop for administrative tasks. is there any way 
to enable the display of all system folders for root but hide them for 
all other users?

Another problem last night - when going into the "users" setup from 
system setup, it won't do it - "module missing, please check and 
install" - any suggestions? - i already tried apt-get install kde and 
apt-get install kubuntu-desktop with no luck.

I am on the verge of hosing the whole system down and doing a new fresh 
install from CD.  This is so frustrating, no wonder there has been such 
a slow migration to Linux.

Rob Collins

daniel at rimspace.net wrote:
> 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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