Jarkko Suontausta wrote: > Upgrading KDE when an older version is already running often causes a lot of > trouble. This is mostly an upstream issue AFAIK, but it might be possible to > add some preventive/corrective measures in the Debian packages. Does anyone > have any ideas?
I have a rather agressive method.
KDEVERSION=$(dpkg --status kdelibs4 | awk '/^Version:/{print$2}')
That returns the base version of the KDE packages installed on the
machine. Then I get a list of packages with that version.
grep-available -n -s Package $KDEVERSION > /tmp/kde-pkg.list
I then remove that list. WARNING! Don't do this unless you know what
you are doing.
apt-get remove --purge $(</tmp/kde-pkg.list)
Then upgrade. Then reinstall KDE. Yes it is harsh. But it has been
the most reliable method for me to upgrade machines. Not really an
upgrade I am afraid. Fortunately most other parts of the system
upgrade okay.
Bob
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