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

[Ian Chapman <ichapman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,
	System Administratiion updates manager (first install updates then
upgrad) New distribution 7.10 is available "UPGRADE BUTTON" click and
eventually ...
Failed to fetch
http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/dists/feisty/free/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/dists/feisty/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/dists/feisty/free/source/Sources.gz
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/dists/feisty/non-free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

So I can not update to Gutsy.  Regards Ian.






On Thu, 2007-06-12 at 14:28 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 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.
> 



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