[wellylug] Flash for Firefox

Jim Cheetham jim at gonzul.net
Tue Sep 11 19:50:21 NZST 2007


On 11/09/2007, Persian <veganforlife at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:17:29 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > historical archive available at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com. You'll
>
> 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.

Excellent - at this point you had a fully up-to-date 5.04 version,
which is a prerequisite for an online update. :-)

> 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.

What's happened here is that the upgrade manager has changed your
sources.list from breezy to dapper (i.e. from 5.04 to 6.06), but it
didn't know that you'd changed all the website names to old-releases -
and that web server doesn't have the current versions.

> 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?

Probably best to get the old sources.list back, then try running
upgrade manager again. It should once more ask you if you want to
change from breezy to dapper - and the answer is yes. This time it
should make the change to dist name, and also have the right server
names :-)

It's possible that upgrade manager might try to do an update to Breezy
first - this will fail if you're using the old sources.list, but we
know it isn't a problem. I don't know if upgrade manager will allow
you to ignore this error - hopefully it will. If it doesn't, we have
another option, which is to manually edit sources.list, and manually
upgrade, as per Jonathan's email earlier.

Let us know how you get on :-)

-jim




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