@ Sajjad I'm not sure of the result but try this after taking a back up Chnge the repositories
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted Then update the package list and install sudo if you don't already have it installed: # apt-get update As a first step to getting all the installed packages in order, you can manually force a reinstall of every package on your system to the specific version available in Ubuntu, but since a typical Debian system has over a thousand packages installed, that can be rather tedious. You can save yourself some time by writing a little script like this: #!/bin/sh for name in \Qdpkg --get-selections | grep '[[:space:]]install$' \\ | awk '{print $1}'\Q do sudo apt-get install --assume-yes ${name}=\Qapt-cache show $name \\ | grep '^Version' | awk '{print $2}'\Q done It's highly likely that some packages you have previously installed from the Debian archives won't "cross-grade" cleanly to the version available in Ubuntu, and you may have to manually uninstall some packages to allow the process to complete. Depending on how your system is set up, you may need to do a lot of poking and prodding to get to the point where: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade can execute cleanly. Once you have your existing packages converted to the Ubuntu versions, it's time to pull in the core Ubuntu packages: $ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-standard ubuntu-desktop The result won't be perfect, but you should then have a system that is a reasonable approximation of a full Ubuntu install. Saral Seen at a link http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-21741.html<%20http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-21741.html> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
