Dave Moskovitz » linux http://dave.moskovitz.co.nz Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:55:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Ubuntu Maverick on a Thinkpad X201 http://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/2011/03/15/ubuntu-maverick-on-a-thinkpad-x201/ http://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/2011/03/15/ubuntu-maverick-on-a-thinkpad-x201/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:22:10 +0000 Dave Moskovitz http://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/?p=213 I finally upgraded my Thinkpad X201 from Kubuntu Lucid to Maverick over the weekend.  I’m pleased to report that the process was nearly flawless using KPackageKit.  Despite segfaults in KPackageKit which didn’t seem to deter it, the upgrade process went very smoothly and took about an hour.

I’ve only encountered three minor problems:

There were some strange dependencies that prevented Kmail from working properly; I had to manually install libkontactinterface4 and libakonadi-contact4.  Akonadi, I wish that it had never been thought of.

cups-pdf disappeared and had to be manually reinstalled.

Bluetooth file receive stopped working.  After a bit of investigation, Debian bug report 609022 had the critical piece of information I needed:  just

ln -s /usr/share/kde4/apps/bluedevil/bluedevil.notifyrc \
~/.kde/share/config/bluedevilfilereceiverhelper.notifyrc

and everything is sweet.

Well done, team Kubuntu – Linux is nearly ready for my mother!
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