Re: [orca-list] A little OT: Orca, Ubuntu and in place upgrades

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

I do release upgrades of Ubuntu all the time. By now I've probably done 
hundreds of them on my home workstation and my work workstations and 
servers. I don't recall ever having problems with orca immediately after 
the upgrade. I can't say I've never had any trouble. But I can say that 
such problems have been rare enough that I cannot recall them.

I'm responsible for approximately 100 Linux workstations running Ubuntu 
sts and maybe 10 servers running Ubuntu LTS. We upgrade the workstations 
every 6 months. Most we just reinstall. But every 6 months, I do a few 
machines by running "do-release-upgrade". And we almost always upgrade 
the servers via the "do-relese-upgrade" command.

My opinion is that running "do-release-upgrade" is pretty safe. It 
rarely breaks orca.

On 1/21/20 5:46 AM, Christopher Chaltain via orca-list wrote:
> For me personally, I never do an in place upgrade. I'm always worried 
> that some dependencies will break, especially in the AT stack. I'd be 
> curious to see how it goes if anyone else tries it, and I should 
> probably give it a spin myself in a virtual machine.
>
>
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> On 1/21/20 5:00 AM, Jace Kattalakis via orca-list wrote:
> > So this may be a tiny bit OT but I was wondering this one, given 20.04 
> > is coming out this year.
> >
> > Simply put....if I do an in place upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04
> >
> >
> > Is it recommended, since I'm not comfortable doing a fresh install of 
> > 20.04 Mate on my admittedly complex system. i.e. if I have 18.04 Mate, 
> > and I do the upgrade from within Ubuntu, will it upgrade me to 20.04 
> > Mate?
> >
> >
> > How will this affect Orca and running Orca-master, and 
> > speech-dispatcher/python/etc?
> >
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