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2008/12/15 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I have been toying with the idea of upgrading it to 8.10, but had a > fairly bad experience upgrading a completely plain 8.04 to 8.10 - as an > experiment I installed 8.04 on the desktop and upgraded it to 8.10... it > didn't go very well, so I installed 8.10 from scratch. > You could install 8.10 over the top of 8.04 on your laptop. Just make sure you DONT reformat and the installer will clean out all the directories (/bin /etc etc) but leave your home folder untouched. > Now, I might be daft, but I'm not stupid. I understand about > dependencies, but how can cups be a dependency of network-manager?! > It isnt. It's a byproduct of a dependant package you will install as a result of upgrading NM. Cheers, Al. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html