Final Focal on Kubuntu 20.04

[NoWorries]

roflmao, maybe Sam, perhaps. More likely Pippin

I have delayed commenting on this post just in case anyone else stepped up to respond.
Your reference to Pippin, as I understand it, is someone who is to be admired.
I have a suspicion that you are referring to me.

Am I correct

[MoonRise]

I usually just install it in the same place as the old distro.
Only format the root partition, leave the content on the /home directory with he exception of the hidden files and hidden directories like .kde, .local, .config and .cache that should be deleted before installing. (So you keep things like .thunderbird, .pan, .mozilla and all the visible files and directories)

Obviously you want to have a recent back up in case the installation goes wrong.

But yes, as Don B. Cilly writes, providing you have enough disk space you would be better off installing on separate partitions to make a multi-boot system.

Actually just going to do fresh install on my root partition. Space? Maybe, but I'll do as I always I guess. Download ISO, burn, fresh install on root. Since this is 18.04 I guess I might want to rename .local and .kde. Wonder if I should on .cache and .config?

[jlittle]

Actually just going to do fresh install on my root partition. Space? Maybe, but I'll do as I always I guess. Download ISO, burn, fresh install on root.

Two labour and headache saving suggestions.

1. If you use btrfs, and use the trick (renaming the @ and @home subvolumes) discussed over the years on this forum, you don't have to worry much about space, unless you install too much altogether; space is in a big shared pool.
2. Burning to USB is an unnecessary waste of time; iso booting is more convenient and faster. No burn time, and the iso boots faster from a disc, and much faster from an SSD. If you're testing a pre-release iso, the time saved quickly adds up.

[MoonRise]

Haven't had a chance to play with btrfs. Someday when I have the free time. I hope. Had already created the USB boot, but really only took a few minutes.

So install went well. The only portion I thought was confusing was the warnings with not having a EFI partition which this setup does not have. Went ahead anyway and all boot well!

That's all I can say about 20.04 beta. So far so good. One application seems to have been dropped. I'll see if I can find a replacment for it. Yes, I do use it - Bombono.

Otherwise in under 1.5 hours have all back what I had. No issues. Even my personal customization scripts ran well and back to the look I had before I started.

Happy! 18.04 on this machine was getting old to me after having been using 19.10 on my other system.

Great Job DEVs!

[acheron]

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-foc...beta-released/

[NoWorries]

For some time now I have been wondering when Qt Version would be updated from 5.12.5. Well, on my Laptop with the proposed option selected, I was pleasantly surprised when QT Version 5.12.8 was installed.

So I expect with the normal repositories selected, it will be just a matter of days before 5.12.8 is installed. The announcement of its release can be found at https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12.8.php.

I, like others, are looking forward to the release of Kubuntu 20.04 on the 23rd April.

To all the developers, keep up the great work which is appreciated by us all in this time of uncertainty!

[kubicle]

For some time now I have been wondering when Qt Version would be updated from 5.12.5. Well, on my Laptop with the proposed option selected, I was pleasantly surprised when QT Version 5.12.8 was installed.

So I expect with the normal repositories selected, it will be just a matter of days before 5.12.8 is installed. The announcement of its release can be found at https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12.8.php.

Qt and plasma versions are separate and not linked together, for example Neon has plasma 5.18.4 and Qt 5.14.1 (plasma 5.12.8, which you linked to was released a year ago)

[acheron]

Qt and plasma versions are separate and not linked together, for example Neon has plasma 5.14.8 and Qt 5.14.1 (plasma 5.12.8, which you linked to was released a year ago)

Yes. QT 5.12.8 was released 4 days ago.

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-5.12.8-released

[Teunis]

The future of QT might be KT:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...ssible-Qt-Fork

[verndog]

The future of QT might be KT:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...ssible-Qt-Fork

There's a huge debate on that topic, on the link. It covers too many possibilities. I don't think its that simple.

[acheron]

On more productive topic. 5.12.8 is now land(ing|ed) in release pocket.

[Snowhog]

121 updates this morning. Qt 5.12.8 here.

[verndog]

121 updates this morning. Qt 5.12.8 here.
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Identical to mine except the hardware section.

[MeMyself]

I was installing the updates that popped up this evening and I ran into the following error. I rebooted to try to clear the system and rerun the update, but this one item seems to not want to update - any ideas?

frank@InfinityStone:~$ sudo apt full-upgrade
[sudo] password for frank:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libkf5mailtransport5abi2 : Depends: libkpimsmtp5abi1 but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
frank@InfinityStone:~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libkpimitinerary-data libkpimitinerary5 libkpimpkpass5 libphonenumber7 libprotobuf17 libzxingcore1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libkpimsmtp5abi1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libkpimsmtp5abi1
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
146 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/47.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 290 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 492703 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libkpimsmtp5abi1_19.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libkpimsmtp5abi1:amd64 (19.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libkpimsmtp5abi1_19.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libksmtp5.mo', which is also in package libkpimsmtp5:amd64 19.04.3-0ubuntu2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libkpimsmtp5abi1_19.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
frank@InfinityStone:~$

[GreyGeek]

While attempting to upgrade 236 packages I had a similar error:

Selecting previously unselected package libkpimsmtp5abi1:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../02-libkpimsmtp5abi1_19.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libkpimsmtp5abi1:amd64 (19.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-4gPfK8/02-libkpimsmtp5abi1_19.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libksmtp5.mo', which is also in package libkpimsmtp5:amd64 19.04.3-0ubuntu2
...
Selecting previously unselected package libkf5eventviews5abi1:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../10-libkf5eventviews5abi1_4%3a19.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libkf5eventviews5abi1:amd64 (4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-4gPfK8/02-libkpimsmtp5abi1_19.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
jerry@Aspire-V3-771:~$

I tried a few of the easy things:
sudo apt install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt clean
etc...
but nothing worked.

So, after wasting 30 minutes trying to resolve the issue it just took 3 minutes to roll back to the snapshot I made before the update, which I am running in right now.