In the following I'm relating what happened to me, with no great expectations for answers or solutions, though I'd be delighted if there are any.
It seems I've been lying under a huge rock for the past year or so, because I never heard of a Mageia 6 release... That is, until a couple of days ago when I received an alert stating that Mageia 5 support will halt, and that I should better upgrade.
Now, I totally forgot that my Mageia 5 upgrade was done in-place. So, I just proceeded with the offered option of just upgrading in-place. And the griefs started...
- After more than two days of downloads, I got an error message "Failure to add medium", with no mention of which specifically.
- After trying to manually update all that is possible to update, Mageia Control Centre remains lacking the tab for installing/uninstalling RPM's and related stuff!!!! This is even lacking in the Desktop menus!!!
- Let alone that some libraries are now broken for no obvious reason, or declared Not Found though they are (e.g., libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 which stops SeaMonkey, for example, from launching).
I'm not complaining, and my sole purpose of relating this to you is that someone, somewhere, might draw conclusions, or a piece of code might end up getting an overhaul.
Thank you all for bearing with me.
Hosam Adeeb Nashed