On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.

Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.

Chris


On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Chris Aitken <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On 14-12-22 09:59 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
    On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Chris Aitken
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        On 14-12-21 09:30 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:

        Right.  That was the problem with the sed command. There's
        noca.old-releases.ubuntu.com
        <http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com> domain.  Just replace
        the whole thing with the three lines I gave you.

        Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade


        Done. So, is the following good, bad, or a mix?


        Fetched 12.0 MB in 23s (504 kB/s)
        W: Failed to fetch
        
http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources
        404  Not Found

        W: Failed to fetch
        
http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages
        404  Not Found


    Okay, I think you may be able to just run "sudo apt-get
    dist-upgrade" and things will work fine.  It failed to run that
    second part because the update failed on some custom PPA's you
    installed.  The dist-upgrade should then disable the PPA's and do
    the upgrade.

    This is what I got ...

    chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get
    dist-upgrade
    [sudo] password for chris:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Calculating upgrade... Done
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      libp11-kit-gnome-keyring
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      gnome-keyring
    1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 1,413 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 245 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
    Get:1 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main
    gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [1,369 kB]
    Get:2 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main
    libp11-kit-gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [44.1 kB]
    Fetched 1,413 kB in 2s (615 kB/s)
    (Reading database ... 325948 files and directories currently
    installed.)
    Preparing to replace gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 (using
    .../gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement gnome-keyring ...
    dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
    '/etc/pkcs11/modules': Directory not empty
    dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/pkcs11':
    Directory not empty
    Selecting previously unselected package libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386.
    Unpacking libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (from
    .../libp11-kit-gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ...
    Processing triggers for man-db ...
    Processing triggers for gconf2 ...
    Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ...
    Setting up libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ...
    Setting up gnome-keyring (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ...
    Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
    ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
    chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$



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