"Someone" might take a look at the Kubuntu install

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 11:02:36 UTC 2015


2015-06-13 4:35 GMT+02:00, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:

>> As Joe says, if you want to go the upgrade route, go incrementally
>> (F18->F19->F20->F21->F22). You might get by with F18->F20->F22, but
>> sometimes skipping the interim steps can cause issues, too. It's your
>> choice.
>
> That's a hell of a lot of downloading, and timewasting, to go through.
> Download, start installing, installer grinds gears for ages assessing
> what you have already installed, trying to make the upgrade be the same.
> And there can easily be some showstopper that's not in the new release,
> aborting the install.  Then you have the huge install time.  Do this
> several times over.

In the past few days I've upgraded two netbooks with fedup. One of
them had Fedora 19 on it, and I didn't want to skip versions, so yes,
it took a lot of time. But it was the netbook's time, not mine. No
problems so far. I wish I had the courage to try fedup earlier.

YMMV, of course.

Andras


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