I did a upgrade of openSuse 11.1 to 11.2 and it has been not too good. I’ve been using openSuse and/or Red Hat Linux for sometime now with no problems so I’m thinking I did something wrong. The way I did it was boot off the 11.2 installation disk and pick Upgrade. The major problem right away was I noticed it downgraded some of my programs, Firefox and Amarok are two that come to mind (The older version of Amarok refused to run). I wished I would of documented all the small stuff I had to do to make things right. The latest being I no longer had the “extract here” option when I right clicked a ZIP file inside of Konqueror (I have fixed). With all that said, before I did the upgrade I Ghosted my 11.1. What I want to do now is Ghost what I have and restore my 11.1 partition. then try the 11.2 upgrade again. Anybody have any suggestions what I should do different? kupdateapplet just now popped up to add insult to injury, it keeps wanting to upgrade my Thunderbird to 3.0, after I just did an addlock in zypper. Apparently it doesn’t use zypper. Anyway, thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Don’t upgrade do a clean new install but DON’T’ format the home partition. The differences between 11.1 and 11.2 are too great.
gogalthorp wrote:
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> Don’t upgrade do a clean new install but DON’T’ format the home
> partition. The differences between 11.1 and 11.2 are too great.
That’s the closest I’ve come as well but there is a hazard that I’ve just
now begun to unravel: you will still have a .kde folder in your home
directory as well as the new .kde4 folder. Rename the .kde folder before
you start on about anything - I had issues with some wierd cross-
contamination. Also look out for some of the other app-specific programs.
Amarok, kaffeine and a couple of others required me to delete those “hidden”
folders and start over. I’m still not really comfortable with either the
upgrade or keeping /home methods. In the end, I think that it would be
quicker to go completely clean and start over!
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Will Honea
Agreed with .kde4 but if there is a problem it is easy to rename or delete later. But if you really use the old OS you have accumulated all sorts of data like emails and bookmarks documents music video etc. This is all on home. So even if you back home up you should keep the partition just to save the trouble of restoring all these files.
I installed on a new drive keeping the old and copying data over as I need it. Also set things up to dual boot to my older version 10.2 in my case.
gogalthorp wrote:
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> Agreed with .kde4 but if there is a problem it is easy to rename or
> delete later. But if you really use the old OS you have accumulated all
> sorts of data like emails and bookmarks documents music video etc. This
> is all on home. So even if you back home up you should keep the
> partition just to save the trouble of restoring all these files.
>
> I installed on a new drive keeping the old and copying data over as I
> need it. Also set things up to dual boot to my older version 10.2 in my
> case.
Good example of that was knode. I copied the whole content of the
…kde/share/apps/knode over to the corresponding .kde4 folder and got the
whole setup moved - saved messages, server setups and all. Now, if I could
just figure how the heck you save articles under the kde4 setup I’d be happy
with that.
Not all apps are that easy. kaffeine and amarok, for example, have
completely changed their settings storage stuff - but I’ll take whatever I
can get!
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Will Honea
Thanks everybody. I’ll do an install instead of upgrade. All my data and profiles like Firefox and Thunderbird are links to my NTFS partition so a fresh install probably makes more sense anyway.