On 05/03/2023 09:35, Terry Coles wrote:
On 05/03/2023 08:41, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi Terry, I seem to remember you commenting on doing this, or maybe it was a
different upgrade. Do you remember having any problems? You must have or you
wouldn't have commented.
Yes. I did have problems; all associated with Activities, so if you don't use
them you should probably be alright. The problem manifested itself in a number
of ways, all of which appeared to be related to remembering changes to the
Desktop. I posted bug reports; at Launchpad -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/2001887 and KDE
Bugs - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463922. Neither of these reports
resulted in any suggestions and the bug wasn't picked up by either team.
However, I subsequently installed the Kubuntu KDE Backports repository which
fixed the original problem (relating to Klipper), but not the one which failed
to remember where I had put things.
I believe that you can't jump a year but have to go through the iterations
from 20.04 to 21.04 to 22.04? By the time I have done that 23.04 should be
available!
That is true, but if you are going to do that and the bug that I reported
affects you, then you may be better to wait for 23.04 to be released before you
make a start on this. If you look at my comments against the bug reports you
will see that I resorted to a clean installation of 22.04 and the bug was
present there too (I retained my /home partition). It seems that once the
erroneous data has been written to the config file it's there forever.
If you have a good backup of your /home directory/partition and can do a clean
install of 23.04 you should be fine. If you install the Synaptic Package
Manager you can get it to generate a Package Download script to re-install all
of the packages that you currently have.
Thanks, good advice.
I did wonder about a clean install. My current system has been mucked about
with a lot since the last one. I'll wait, and do another backup.
Peter
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