I usually do a fresh install every time, but there are no CDs for 8 yet.
I decided to try an upgrade of 7. As often happens, the download was interrupted, and there was a message about newer packages conflicting
with existing ones.
The net-installer took me back to square one, but it didn't start a
fresh installation; it merely continued at the interruption point. I
have never seen that happen with installation media. It failed again at the last minute, with one of the Xorg packages being named. I didn't expect the installation to work without X, but the installer continued
to the setting-up screen. On rebooting, almost everything worked as intended. The missing package for X did not become an update, and is
still not shown as being required. Kodi couldn't be installed from the repos because of a GTK2 dependency failure, the user config in MCC
remained as before.
Minitube had developed a connection problem. An updated version (3.3)
in Cauldron fixed the problem, but the Qt libraries version in Mga 7.1 wasn't new enough. [ Minitube needs a Google API. The RPMS supply one,
but those building from source have to apply for their own.]
A clean installation, whenever possible, is still the better policy.
I usually do a fresh install every time, but there are no CDs for 8 yet.
I decided to try an upgrade of 7. As often happens, the download was interrupted,
and there was a message about newer packages conflicting
with existing ones.
The net-installer took me back to square one, but it didn't start a
fresh installation; it merely continued at the interruption point. I
have never seen that happen with installation media. It failed again at
the last minute, with one of the Xorg packages being named.
I didn't
expect the installation to work without X, but the installer continued
to the setting-up screen. On rebooting, almost everything worked as intended. The missing package for X did not become an update, and is
still not shown as being required. Kodi couldn't be installed from the
repos because of a GTK2 dependency failure, the user config in MCC
remained as before.
Minitube had developed a connection problem. An updated version (3.3)
in Cauldron fixed the problem, but the Qt libraries version in Mga 7.1
wasn't new enough. [ Minitube needs a Google API. The RPMS supply one,
but those building from source have to apply for their own.]
A clean installation, whenever possible, is still the better policy.
I usually do a fresh install every time, but there are no CDs for 8 yet.
I decided to try an upgrade of 7. As often happens, the download was interrupted, and there was a message about newer packages conflicting
with existing ones.
The net-installer took me back to square one, but it didn't start a
fresh installation; it merely continued at the interruption point. I
have never seen that happen with installation media. It failed again at
A clean installation, whenever possible, is still the better policy.
On 12/23/19 11:26 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
I usually do a fresh install every time, but there are no CDs for 8 yet.I don't even consider trying Cauldron until there's a DVD to test. Until
the developers believe it's stable enough for those first DVDs, it's not stable enough for me. I just don't have the patience to deal with it at
that stage.
YMMV.
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