Thank you Saral. I would definitely try that out. But it seems my Debian system is crashing frequently. Also X server gets errors frequently. These errors are following some installation without satisfying the dependencies and also a system update. So I guess i have to go for a clean installation.
Hope to get it work. Thank you. Regards. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Saral Sasidharan <[email protected] > wrote: > @ 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 > > > > -- Sajjad Anwar http://geohackers.in http://fsugcalicut.org [email protected] +91 9995 19 13 12 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
