On 2012-02-09 09:30, Alan Pope wrote: > On 09/02/12 09:07, Barry Drake wrote: >> And when we get to April release date, >> will I then have an installation exactly the same as the newly released >> Precise Pangolin, or ought I to re-install? > > Debatable. There may be the odd setting here or there which you may be > carrying from an earlier update, but it's pretty much identical. Some might > suggest creating a clean user or deleting certain dot-directories in your > home, or doing a clean install. Up to you really.
Indeed. The installed system (outside /home) will almost certainly be the same as if you did a base install with the final release. However, you may have to delete some dotfiles in your home directory if default configuration options changed. There is a very tiny chance that software packages installed in the alpha will be removed by the final, and that these won't be automatically removed from your system. In that case, just run: sudo apt-get autoremove I'd suggest not to worry about it and see how it turns out. It'll probably be just fine. Regards, Tyler -- "If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the ... confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought." -- Edward R. Murrow -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/