On Wed, 2007-21-11 at 13:11 -0500, al davis wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ian Chapman wrote: > > I am using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn which is my first > > serious effort into Linux. This release is only a few months > > old. I guess that there is not too much change between Gutsy > > and Feisty? > > > > I like its stability and speed after XP but I am not > > expert at understanding what all the helpers are talking > > about. The .deb files I have installed to get the Firefox 64 > > plugins working not too difficult. Printers are total > > gibberish to me cups, foomatic and gutenprint and I > > eventually found where it put the driver. Now Open office > > word prints and that's all that can print. > > > > I would be really pleased to try your .deb file. I > > think that would be simpler than updating Ubuntu and being > > frustrated by plugins and print drivers again. > > On Debian (and I assume Ubuntu also) you can update without > reinstalling ... Hi Al, you are right. I should update and it is easy in Ubuntu since the update manager has a button Upgrade. It would have been really simple and fast only error 404 at nearly the end "failed to fetch http://mdeibuntu-sos-sts.com/repo/dist/feisty/free/binary-amd64/Packages.gs same for binary, sources and non free source". Feisty is the current distro and should I not be getting Gutsy the new distro? The site seems to be up and alive, just needs a little tweak; I guess I should try again tomorrow. Regards Ian. > > First edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list to change to the new > version. > > Then "apt-get update" > > Then "apt-get dist-upgrade" > > If you advance by one, it should go pretty smooth. If you wait, > and are several behind, it is more likely that something will > require more attention. > > You should be doing "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" > regularly anyway to catch security fixes, even if you don't > change /etc/apt/sources.list. > > It is so easy to keep up to date that it doesn't make sense to > keep using the old one. > > I can understand the fear ... This easy update is not so easy > with older systems, and even with some new ones. > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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