[LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this. I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my boxes run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the menu vanished to an auto select feature. Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either.

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread Jeff Mings
Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version number and desktop would that be? I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager, disappeared. If all else fails, aptitude is the best console / terminal-based package manager I've seen. You can do _everything_ fr

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread J.K.Roby
I'm running Ubuntu 10.1 and the updates stopped long ago.The upside is the install functions perfectly. I very much like the clean desktop as opposed to the new 12.04 and am looking at this MATE overlay. Annoying that Ubuntu updates so frequently,and I read something that the Debian folks also g

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread Jeff Mings
FYI - if you like the look of 10.1, you can use 10.04, which is one of the LTS releases. The LTS releases have very long support lives - thru April 2013 for desktop and April 2015 for the server version of 10.04. Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, which is why it's such a big deal. -Jeff On 0

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread J.K.Roby
Yes,it is "You are using Ubuntu 10.10- the Maverick Meerkat - released in October 2010 and supported until April 2012." Is upgrade available for 10.1 to 10.04 or does it require a rebuild? On 09/05/2012 10:43 AM, Jeff Mings wrote: FYI - if you like the look of 10.1, you can use 10.04, which is

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread Al Plant
Jeff Mings wrote: Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version number and desktop would that be? I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager, disappeared. If all else fails, aptitude is the best console / terminal-based package manager I've seen. You can

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread Jeff Mings
I have never tried to convert an existing installation backwards. I strongly recommend moving to the appropriate sub-version of Ubuntu 12.04. That would probably be the desktop 64 bit version. This will probably work as an upgrade, but I would do a clean install. Remember to grab your ISO i

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread Jeff Mings
Hi Al, You could probably fix the issues, but 8.10 has been unsupported for a long time. Your time is limited, so you should move to Ubuntu 12.04, since that is so much better in the long run. I've found some bugs with Unity and Gnome 3 recently, but they're really cool desktops, and you migh

Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Besenbruch
> Jeff Mings wrote: > > Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version > > number and desktop would that be? > > > Aloha Jeff. > > It is Ubunto 8.10 with the Synaptic manager. That indeed is an old version. I suspect that Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex will not update cleanly, or