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Upgrade Complete

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

I fin­ished up all the upgrades to my home PC putting me on Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gib­bon). Unfor­tu­nately none of the auto-magical upgrade tools pro­vided by Canon­i­cal worked for me, so all my upgrades were done via cli, using apti­tude. Mostly this means I had to repeat­edly run “sudo apti­tude dist-upgrade”, inter­spersed with removing/installing spe­cific pack­ages based on errors thrown up by api­ti­tude, with a cou­ple “sudo apti­tude –f install” and “sudo dpkg –con­fig­ure –a” thrown in for good measure.

I’ve been run­ning Gutsy for a day now and the apps I nor­mally use¹ seems to be work­ing fine. A cou­ple of tweaks I made almost imme­di­ately after upgrad­ing to Gusty:

• Removed Strigi. From what I under­stand Strigi is sup­posed to be some sort of indexer to allow for quick search­ing of your com­puter. Only I found it had a hor­ri­bly impact per­for­mance. Every­thing became extremely sluggish.
• Switch the default file man­ager to Kon­queror from Dol­phin. Dol­phin looks like it might be use­ful and it did feel faster. But I’m used to Kon­queror and don’t feel like mak­ing the switch right now.
• Installed Com­piz. I found it inter­est­ing but dif­fer­ent enough from my nor­mal pref­er­ences that I’ve dis­abled it for now. Though I do plan to look at it more another day.

¹ Kon­tact, Fire­fox, Kon­sole, KMy­Money, Kaf­feine, Digikam, and Amarok

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