Menachem's questions

I experienced this problem with konversation, but while searching for a solution, I saw that many people were having this problem with many different KDE programs, so I thought I'd bring it up here

I'm running lubuntu (a GTK based distribution), but I run several KDE programs, including konversation. When I was running 14.10, konversation worked without issue, but when I upgraded to to 15.04, I was no longer able to right click and save links. When I tried, I received the following message:

could not start process cannot talk to klauncher the name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files

How can I solve this problem and be able to right-click and save links again?

I'm using a fresh install of Lubuntu 14.10, and have installed Mcomix version 1.00-1 from the universe repositories.

I'm trying to rotate the whole comic, so that I can read it by turning my laptop sideways. However, when I rotate one page, it only rotates that page, not the whole comic. When I flip to the next page, it is back to its standard orientation.

What do I need to do so that mcomix will remember my rotation preferences? I think the term is persistence...

I'm pretty sure this worked on my older laptop, but I don't have it in front of me to check.

I'm running lubuntu 10.10, and would like to upgrade to 11.04. I have a very temperamental internet connection, so I would like to download all the packages before running the install.

According to this, there is no easy way to do this. The bug report mentioned in that thread is still open.

My question: Is there a way to hack do-release-upgrade to only download the packages, kind of like adding a "-d" to apt-get dist-upgrade?

Or is doing it manually the only way to get the result I desire?

If I have to do it manually, are these the steps needed to do it, or am I missing something?

1. Disable 3rd party repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d
2. Change repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list from maverick to natty
3. run sudo apt-get update
4. run sudo apt-get -d dist-upgrade to only download the packages. Do this as many times as necessary until all the packages are downloaded.
5. run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to complete the upgrade process