Ubuntu 9.10, nicknamed Karmic Koala, is about to be released, and in a moment of idleness, I upgraded my old 9.04 install to the latest beta. More here

So I’m all ready to take advantage of my new compiler and its improvements, but first I need to bring all my software up to speed. I’ll make notes here as I go along, and hopefully this will be useful also for users of other Linux distributions.