Ubuntu Breezy to Ubuntu Dapper
Not sure if the above how-to will work, but will have to give it a shot. REMEMBER TO BACKUP
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May 27th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
OK. I tried to upgrade my breezy installation with the new Dapper Beta. Switch all the references of “Breezy” to “Dapper” in the sources.list file and then apt-get update, apt-get distro-upgrade.
Easy right?
After many hours of fixing odd dependancy problems and forcing many packages, the installation would not boot…hanging at local.rc (whatever that is)
I decided to do a fresh install. After all, my /home is on another partition (isnt yours?) So on antoher computer I downloaded the ISO, and installed it formatting my root partition. The install went clean and even detected all three network adapters! My built-in ethernet, my broadcom internal wireless chip, and my PCMCIA Atheros based card.
None of the wireless cards would connect, I suspect because I am using a non-standard channel and key 4 vice key 1 for WEP, but the eth0 interface picked up the DHCP server and Viola! I was off and installing.
After the install, the only problem right away was the Adept Notifier. This is the little applet that Gnome users see in the tray to let them know of updates…now KDE has one too! It said I have 12 updates, so I applied them and the notifier disappeared. A simple ps -ef told me that it was still running, but I no longer had access to it and while it was running it had the database locked up. I killed it and then could use the tried and true apt-get to pull down firefox, thunderbird, and synaptic.
Time for bed, more to come later.