upgrading my laptop tonight to the (soon-to-be) beta of the next Ubuntu release. I’ll try and catalog how it goes.
At the moment, it looks like I’ve got over a gigs’ worth of pacakages to download … definately an overnight job. So, aptitude -d dist-upgrade it is…
So, a little over 1,100 packages takes about half an hour to install on my 2.something or other laptop. Not too shabby. It’s not a complete upgrade — there’s another handful of packages that had to be kept around through the first dist-upgrade. Next round looks like it’s going to take out sysvinit and replace it with upstart. Think I’m going to delay that one, as I need to head off for the moment … more later
Second round of dist-upgrades … This is interesting. The system automatically wants to install upstart … and forces the uninstallation of sysvinit, which dpkg doesn’t like. And because of the vaugeries of aptitude, I have to type “I understand that this is a very bad idea” not once, but twice, for the OS induced replacement of a critical package. Not that I wasn’t planning on doing that anyway, but, there might want to be some though given to that — it comes off a bit scary (well, replacing sysvinit should be scary, because without it, you got nothin’) and the upgrade is supposed to be “smooth” …
Despite the warnings, however, my machine rebooted quite happily. Which is good, because I hate having to dig up rescue CDs … So far, seems good. I like the new artwork. Edgy installs firefox2 beta, which means that most of the extensions I had installed won’t work … I hadn’t been too dependant on those, although I’ll definately miss the delicious plugin. Nothing earthshattering those, and those’ll come back in time.
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