I’m running Kubuntu 6.04 Dapper Drake

Posted on 09 Mar 2006 by avinash

I’ve dist-upgraded my AMD64 Kubuntu Linux installation from 5.10 Breezy to 6.04 Dapper Drake (even if the latter is still Beta). I had to solve some small issues but I suppose that this is what happens when one uses Beta versions :-)

  • Dynamically loaded firmware (for example, firmware for my USB Alcatel Speedtouch modem) MUST be placed in /lib/firmware/{kernelversion}/ instead of /lib/hotplug/firmware/ as was the case in 5.10
  • The default configuration of KDE is not nice at all : new windows do not automatically get the focus. For example, pressing Alt-F2 to bring the “Run Command” window does not allow you to type a command right away because of the lack of focus. Solving the problem is easy, just change the “Focus stealing prevention level” from Low to none as shown here :

  • When logging in KDE, the splash screen was not displayed properly because a required package (ksplash-engine-moodin) was not installed (I had to do it manually)
  • This is not a bug but a feature it seems to me :-) NTP (client) is not installed by default. I need to find out why.

By the way, a drake is a male duck :

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About avinash

I am the Managing-Director of Knowledge Seven Ltd, provider of quality consultancy, support and training for open source software. I am also an amateur photographer and musician. I use a Google Nexus One Android smartphone, an Apple MacBook, Mac OS X, Linux and a lot of open source software. I am married to Christina and we have two wonderful kids, Kyan & Anya. In case you are wondering, Noulakaz means "our home" in my native language, créole.
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3 Responses to I’m running Kubuntu 6.04 Dapper Drake

  1. heri says:
    21 Mar 2006 at 23:29

    Hello,
    I am totally a newbie using Kubuntu 5.10, Plese inform:
    - How to dist-upgrade ? Is it O.K. with changing the source list and then sudo apt-get and sudo dist-upgrade ?

    - I am using Speedtouch USB ADSL Modem 330 silver and this firmware:
    speedtouch-firmware_0.3012k_all.deb
    Did you use the same one and if so did you re-install the firmware after upgrade to Dapper ?

  2. heri says:
    21 Mar 2006 at 23:36

    Hello,
    I am a newbie using Kubuntu 5.10

    Please inform
    - How did you dist-upgrade ? Is it O.K. by changing the source list and then apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade ?
    - I am using Speedtouch USB ADSL Modem. Did you use the same firmare as I do i.e. speedtouch-firmware_0.3012k_all.deb ?
    - If so did you re-install the firmware after dist-upgrade ?

    Thanks

  3. avinash says:
    26 Mar 2006 at 11:53

    Sorry, I did not notice your comment…

    To dist-upgrade to Dapper, I only changed all breezy references to dapper in sources.list and issued

    sudo aptitude update
    sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

    (PS: Use aptitude instead of apt-get, it’s better because it automatically removes unused packages when you manually remove a package)

    I’m also using a Speedtouch USB modem. And the only thing I needed to do to get it to work was to copy the firmware (called speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin) to

    /lib/firmware/

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