Re: gEDA-user: updating your OS, was: Re: Export gerber crash

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:28 -0500, Ian Chapman wrote:

> Hi Al, you are right.  I should update and it is easy in Ubuntu since
> the update manager has a button Upgrade.  It would have been really
> simple and fast only error 404 at nearly the end "failed to fetch
> http://mdeibuntu-sos-sts.com/repo/dist/feisty/free/binary-amd64/Packages.gs same for binary, sources and non free source".  Feisty is the current distro and should I not be getting Gutsy the new distro?  The site seems to be up and alive, just needs a little tweak; I guess I should try again tomorrow.  Regards Ian.

That upgrade button just pulls in new security fixes etc.. unless you
change the sources list as below.

The medibuntu ("medibuntu", not "mdeibuntu" as in that url you pasted)
repository moves occasionally, presumably because it hosts libdvdcss
stuff etc.. which administrators might get nervous of distributing from
their site.

Perhaps you have a typo in your /etc/apt/sources.list or you just made a
typo in the email.

> > First edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list to change to the new 
> > version.
> > 
> > Then "apt-get update"
> > 
> > Then "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> > 
> > If you advance by one, it should go pretty smooth.  If you wait, 
> > and are several behind, it is more likely that something will 
> > require more attention.

Updating by one version is officially supported. Anything else is not.

There are some possible instructions here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/upgrade-ubuntu-from-feisty-to-gutsy/

> > You should be doing "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" 
> > regularly anyway to catch security fixes, even if you don't 
> > change /etc/apt/sources.list.

You shouldn't really need to...

Ubuntu will have asked you at some point how often you want it to
background check for updates / fixes, and whether to automatically apply
them or not. If not, the preferences are in
"System->Administration->Software sources (->Updates)"

I personally set to download every day, but like to confirm their
installation, and know what has changed (in case something breaks).
You'll see a little orange icon (with a star?) in the task-bar notifying
you of updates.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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