Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Tim Wescott
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 12:55 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, my friend has managed to yank xfce4's undies into a wedgie. No window manager running so there's only one frameless window and the settings manager will not let me invoke xfwm4. There's more that's torqued, too. So, despite my using

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 On 08/22/2011 12:55 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: Back to the distribution upgrade. It keeps telling me that 10.04 is up to date but I cannot find a menu option to upgrade the

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Joe, That looks like what I vaguely recalled from long ago. I'll save it for the next time. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42, Joe Shisei Niski joeni...@easystreet.net wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade out of curiosity, why is anyone still using apt-get on ubuntu? i use aptitude exclusively these days. favorite feature: /var/log/aptitude.log second favorite feature: dependency

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42, Joe Shisei Niski joeni...@easystreet.net wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade out of curiosity, why is anyone still using apt-get on ubuntu? Or Debian, for that matter. i use aptitude exclusively these days.

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Jameson Williams
On 08/24/2011 02:20 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42, Joe Shisei Niskijoeni...@easystreet.net wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade out of curiosity, why is anyone still using apt-get on ubuntu? i use aptitude exclusively these days. favorite feature:

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Russell Senior
Paul == Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com writes: i use aptitude exclusively these days. favorite feature: /var/log/aptitude.log Paul +1 Paul aptitude rocks -- though the curses-based interface you get when Paul calling aptitude without arguments pretty much defines the word Paul ugly.

[PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
Well, my friend has managed to yank xfce4's undies into a wedgie. No window manager running so there's only one frameless window and the settings manager will not let me invoke xfwm4. There's more that's torqued, too. So, despite my using xfce for years how to fix this has so far escaped my

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-22 Thread Jason Barnett
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: Well, my friend has managed to yank xfce4's undies into a wedgie. No window manager running so there's only one frameless window

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Jason Barnett wrote: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade Jason, Thanks. I'll save this for the next time. Still need to have a working desktop manager. Rich ___ PLUG mailing