[HLUG] upgrade will remove useful packages

[Mark Broadbent]

On 06/11/05, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Graham Cole wrote:
>
> >I would really like to upgrade my Gnome system tools but I am told that
> >when it is done my Evolution email package, Totem-gstreamer and many
> >other things will be removed. This is worrying and I wonder if I can
> >recover my emails later by re-installing Evolution. I see there are 2
> >kinds of removal: 'removal' and 'complete removal'.
> >This is in the context of Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Preview.
> >
> >
> AFAIK emails would never be removed after do an upgrade of software.
> Thee mails are stored in a separate location the program files, and
> config files. I don't use Evolution , so please don't quote me on this,
> but I'm pretty sure you should be ok.

Having used evolution in the past, all users emails are stored in
either ~/.evolution or ~/evolution.

> Even doing a full dist-upgrade from Ubuntu Hoary to Breezy still retains
> most of the little things like, desktop icons you have added, e tc.

All desktop settings are also stored in the users home directory, in
fact anything that is customisable by a user is stored in their home
directory.


Thanks
Mark

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