How do I upgrade to 10-10 without having to remove jack and kwin-effects and whatnot?

[wolfreak_99]

Once again this darn thing is asking me to uninstall a bunch of programs I use alot just to upgrade.

I'm asking this. how do I upgrade to 10.10, WITHOUT having to remove these?
is there any way to disable the need to remove packages, like, edit a piece of the synaptics code and comment it out? I would like the option to choose which programs to get rid of.

this has happened to me for the past several times. last time it asked if i wanted to remove the ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop, yeah sure why not just label the upgrade "ubuntu: brick edition".



anyways, main question. how to disable the need to remove packages when upgrading.

any help appreciated.

[coopstah13]

ubuntu-desktop is a meta package that depends on all the packages needed for a ubuntu desktop machine, if you remove it *nothing* will happen to your system

those packages may be on the list to remove, but did you check what is on the list to add? perhaps they don't exist as they've had their names changed and been transitioned to another package name

when you run an upgrade, some packages will be removed some will be added, some will be upgraded

[wolfreak_99]

I'm THINKING Theyre mostly from Deb files I've downloaded from the internet, cause I remember I downloaded and installed WebcamStudio via a deb file.

Would there be a way to back up any installed deb files?
or better yet, would there be any way of just disabling the need to remove them, and just keep them in and "manually remove later" (aka, not remove unless it doesn't work, because I shouldn't have to ditch a program just for an upgrade)

[coopstah13]

probably you need to download the version that will work for ubuntu 10.10, but I could be wrong

those deb files might depend on things that dont' exist in 10.10 because of version difference, so they might get uninstalled because they won't work, I don't know if that is what the upgrader does or not though

if the package has no dependencies, I don't see why it would get removed and would think that is a bug