Re: [Bug 2078589] Re: fight: desktop-base vs kubuntu-settings-desktop vs fontconfig-common:

2024-10-08 Thread CHRISTOPHER G PETTY
Stuart: Just before you sent that message, I found the issue was not fixed. The update script trashed the efi partition on a live system and wiped Grub from the machine before automatically rebooting before I could even attempt to fix the issue. I used to be a die hard ubuntu fan. Now I've got t

Re: [Bug 2078589] Re: fight: desktop-base vs kubuntu-settings-desktop vs fontconfig-common:

2024-10-04 Thread CHRISTOPHER G PETTY
If there are, the ubuntu team seems tight lipped about sharing it, and given the age of this bug report, they seem uninterested in fixing it. I've given up on ubuntu. On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 04:05 Markus Hummel <2078...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Is it really the only solution to leave Kubuntu? >

Re: [Bug 2078589] Re: fight: desktop-base vs kubuntu-settings-desktop vs fontconfig-common:

2024-10-03 Thread CHRISTOPHER G PETTY
Yes. I uni stalled KDE, ran the update which failed to complete, rendering my system unbootable. Luckily, my data was still on the drives, I was able to copy it off before installing Fedora on that machine. I am in the process of migrating everything ubuntu over to Debian or Fedora now. This upda

[Bug 2080406] Re: No upgrade candidate for libc6-dev?

2024-09-11 Thread CHRISTOPHER G PETTY
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 2078589 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2078589 @Julian: I explained why libc6-dev is necessary for my particular build. The reason it's mentioned here is because, according to the logs, that's what killed the upgrade - a candidate to replace it was not

[Bug 2080406] [NEW] No upgrade candidate for libc6-dev?

2024-09-11 Thread CHRISTOPHER G PETTY
Public bug reported: HAMLIB and tQSL (along with quite a few other applications) require libc6-dev to build. I build them rather than installing the packages because the repositories are very slow to provide updated packages for some software. Example: tqsl is at least three versions behind the cu