KubuntuDistUpgrade
Test the new Kubuntu Dist Upgrade tool!
We need people to test this, otherwise it will not be accepted into the archives. Please test and let us know if it worked.
If you don't have Edgy installed, make a chroot and use that. See below.
Start Adept Manager (K-Menu -> System -> Adept)
Make sure kubuntu-desktop is installed, if not install it.
In Adept Manager go to Manage Repositories and enable edgy-proposed:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed main
or if you have KDE 3.5.6 Edgy packages installed add this one:
deb http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/edgy-dist-upgrade-kde356/ ./
Click Apply, then Close, then Fetch Updates, then Full Upgrade then Apply Changes
Quit Adept Manager and restart it.
Click Fetch Updates.
After updating the archive it should offer to upgrade Kubuntu, follow the wizard and the dist-upgrade tool should be downloaded and run.
Important: there is a bug in the tool, you need to quit Adept after it has started.
Please comment on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/84717 if it worked or not.
http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/dist-upgrader.png
Chroot
If you don't already have an edgy system make a chroot and install kubuntu-desktop:
- mkdir edgy
- sudo debootstrap edgy edgy
- mount -t none -o bind /tmp edgy/tmp
- mount -t none -o bind /dev edgy/dev
- mount -t none -o bind /proc edgy/proc
- xhost +
- sudo chroot edgy
- export LANG=C
- apt-get install kubuntu-desktop