Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ...
by vetinari on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:01AM
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The only third-party ppas were team-xbmc and nvidia driver. I think that the more likely reason for breakage was, that it is not the desktop installation from live cd, it is minimal installation from the mini cd and then hand-picked packages. It has X11, but no desktop environment, for example.
Re:The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is ...
by slgeorge on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:54AM
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I guess no-one (or fewer people) were testing that configuration. I wonder if you could use a VM or similar to at least test the upgrade before you do it. I do quite a bit of cleaning before an upgrade, but hitting the button to 'do it' is always a bit of a stressful moment!
Second, if you are using PPA's you are much more likely to have problems. There's no way to test all the inter-relations between packages that are outside the central archive. If you have packages that have upgraded fundamental packages in Ubuntu's Main archive then it's likely to break.
I mention this because you're talking about multi-media.
In general, it's best to remove PPA software before you launch the upgrade, in fact it's a good opportunity to remove anything from the system that you don't really need: for example for my 16.04 upgrade I removed the C++ environment as I'm not using it.