Updating Ubuntu 6.04 to 7.10

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:21:59PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Reinstalls are for broken distributions only.
> May be, but for sheer time consumed in performing more than four
> complete Ubuntu upgrades it may be faster to backup data, reinstall and
> restore data.

Almost certainly not.  You would still have to get all your packages
installed again and configured.  Performaing a backup would take a very
long time for many people if they have any real quantity of data.

> There is a problem with the Canadian localization files in Kubuntu 7.10
> that causes menus to look wonky after an upgrade (see
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10136391/kubuntubug.png).
> 
> The problem does not appear if you set your locale to USA or UK. A
> recent update to the package
> "language-pack-en" (version "1:7.10+20071120") fixes many (but not all)
> of the problems; hopefully future updates will fix the rest. (It's
> reported with Ubuntu on launchpad as bug #135084.)

Canada has it's own locale?

> You will likely not encounter this if upgrading GNOME-based Ubuntu
> rather than Kubuntu.

I always just assume KDE has bugs. :)

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