[wellylug] Flash for Firefox

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Sep 11 19:19:01 NZST 2007


Synaptic does a pretty good job of handling all that for you.

Cheers,

Cliff

Rimu Atkinson wrote:
> do the full reinstall
> 
> i've tried going down the manually-edit-sources.list path to upgrading 
> and it all went to custard to the point where gnome wouldn't boot,,,
> 
> R
> 
> Persian wrote:
>> Hi again
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:17:29 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
>>   
>>> Now I see that it has indeed been removed - luckily there's an
>>> historical archive available at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com. You'll
>>> have to change all your repositories to that - probably by editing
>>> /etc/apt/sources.list by hand, then running apt-get update, then
>>> apt-get upgrade.
>>>
>>>     
>> OK I changed all the unremarked lines to old-releases as above,. then I did the
>> apt-get update, all seemed OK. It went away and did a lot of updates.
>> Then I tried to do the upgrade again using the same upgrade manager as before. 
>> I got a message saying did I want to replace my sources.list and make everything dapper instead of
>> breezy and I clicked yes. Then it started to do the upgrade and I got
>> another whole heap of error msgs here. 
>>
>> So what is wrong with my sources.list now, do I need to get my old soures.list file
>> which I copied to another name and swap them back again, or do I need to change
>> all the old-releases back to nz.archive?
>>
>>
>> thanks a lot
>> Lyndsay
>>
>>
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/restricted/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
>> Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/restricted/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
>>   
> 




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