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Tom Potts wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 07:57, Tom Potts wrote: > >> On Monday 15 December 2008 23:44, Alan Pope wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> or you could set the update manager to use (i cant remember exactly) >> non-supported upgrades, reload it and then it will then tell you theres and >> upgrade available and lead you through the process. >> I must say I've had this bugger up one machine - it did have KDE and Gnome >> managers on it and got serious schizophrenia - but others have updated OK. >> >> I must say it is worrying how interdependent some packages are getting - >> whatever happened to the early Unix philosophy of do one job and do it >> well. >> > Its just occurred to me that the server edition of Ubuntu has no graphical > component so it may be possible to use its repositories .... > Tom te tom te tom Surely network-manager-gnome would still depend on GTK which would still depend on CUPS, they just wouldn't be installed by default. Grant. -- 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