R: Ubuntu 11.10: ppa update-upgrade

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 02 November 2011 Nov, silvio grosso wrote:
> Hi Boud,
> 
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > Can you give us a list of what gets updated, next time you update?
> 
> I have taken a look at my bin folder where the Krita 2.4 launcher is located.
> 
> It looks like most of the files are downloaded into:
> opt/neon-project/bin
> 
> For instace, on this bin folder I have:
> 37808 files for a total of 764,8 MB
> 
> More precisely on this bin folder I have plenty of launchers.
> Most of them are related to Calligra (Krita, Karbon, Kexi, Calligratable, Calligrastage etc).
> But there are other Kde applications as well: e.g. Kate (text editor), Konqueror etc

I think that's pretty up to date. Soon, we'll have proper *buntu packages -- um, I mean: packages of releases, not git master. People are working on that, see my last blog on krita.org.

For now, I really think we can be confident that Neon is keeping you up to date with us!

> 
> To sum up, when you upgrade Ubuntu 11.10 it is very likely the ppa updates all these applications :-)
> 
> N.B: to avoid this massive upgrading, at the very beginning, I have tried to use Kubuntiac's Script [2].
> Unfortunately, it has never worked out for me.
> I have tried it on different Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity Shell) Vbox Virtual machines (32-64 bit).
> I have even tried it on Kubuntu 11.10 but it failed on it as well :-)
> 
> Now I am 100% fine with this ppa:neon/ppa :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Silvio
> 
> [2] http://forum.kde.org/viewtopicn.php?f=139&t=92880
> 
> 


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