Ubuntu servers: different servers have different packages, leading to some issues

2014-04-21 Thread Pierre Equoy
Hi there, First of all, if this topic is not quality-related, please let me know who I should contact for this. I had a lot of small issues today while installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. For instance, I could not install the proprietary nvidia drivers [1] (there was some unmet dependencies

Re: Ubuntu servers: different servers have different packages, leading to some issues

2014-04-21 Thread Elfy
On 21/04/14 15:50, Pierre Equoy wrote: snip - is there a document listing the different servers? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors Elfy -- Ubuntu Forum Council Member Xubuntu QA Lead -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Ubuntu servers: different servers have different packages, leading to some issues

2014-04-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Just an FYI on this, the archive mirrors aren't all going to be synced up at the same rate. I'm not certain when they all sync, but you can see how up to date they are at a glance on the link Elfy sent. When you look at the list under Taiwan you'll see there's some server that are up-to-date,

Re: Ubuntu servers: different servers have different packages, leading to some issues

2014-04-21 Thread Brian Murray
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:50:46PM +0800, Pierre Equoy wrote: Hi there, First of all, if this topic is not quality-related, please let me know who I should contact for this. I had a lot of small issues today while installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. For instance, I could not install the

Re: Ubuntu servers: different servers have different packages, leading to some issues

2014-04-21 Thread Pierre Equoy
Thanks all for the information! I'm not sure what server is selected by default (in System Settings it was just üsing Server for Taiwan without specifying which one). What is the tool used to select the appropriate mirror during installation? Do you think it could somehow select a mirror server