Upgrading to Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

Okay so I had this question if I should upgrade from Kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, looking around I did not see too many glowing reviews. All I did see was people facing this issue and that issue, however I finally did do the upgrade to check it out for myself.

All in all the upgrade was smooth, did it via the alternate CD. No point redoing the documentation that has already been done well. Look here for more details - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OneiricUpgrades#Upgrading_Using_the_Alternate_CD.2BAC8-DVD

One minor issue that I did face was Muon getting stuck and not being able to complete adding new updates ("muon another package seems to be using the package system .. "). So I ran dpkg from the command line, here is the error message. I just followed running it with the configure & a option and it fixed the problem

dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

I do prefer the Kpackagekit to Muon, especially the fact that KPK let me continue selecting software to install while an install was already happening.


Okay so now the million dollar question, should you upgrade ? If you believe in the latest and the best go ahead. If you are a little streched for time and have a system that you have configured & customized you probably can skip this update.

Here is a little screen shot -