Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

[vinodis]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

my sources.list is like this:-

deb file:/cdrom/ dapper main restricted

[Fenyx]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

That's the only thing in your sources.list? Sounds fishy, as regular installations would have many lines in the sources.list.

Anyway, a few questions so that we could determine the problem.

1. Which CD ISO did you download and burn? the Desktop CD (which is basically a Live CD with installation options) or the Alternate Install CD (the text based installer). Did you burn it correctly? (as a CD image, not as a data CD)
2. If you have a copy of your old sources.list, it might be found in the /etc/apt directory as sources.list~ (/etc/apt/sources.list). Could you post that?
4. Were you the one who put that line in your sources.list.

[vinodis]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

That was the entry which I edited. Others were all commented. So I did not include here.

1. Which CD ISO did you download and burn? the Desktop CD (which is basically a Live CD with installation options) or the Alternate Install CD (the text based installer). Did you burn it correctly? (as a CD image, not as a data CD)

I downloaded and burned a bootable CD using this http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubun...sktop-i386.iso

2. If you have a copy of your old sources.list, it might be found in the /etc/apt directory as sources.list~ (/etc/apt/sources.list). Could you post that?

Before Changing:-
1st line:-
deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 5.10_Breezy Badger_-Release i386(20051012)]/ Breezy main restricted

I changed this one to:-
deb file:/cdrom dapper main restricted

Other lines are there, but all are commented with #

4. Were you the one who put that line in your sources.list.

Yes

This is what I did:-

Installed happily the Breezy release
Downloaded the Automatix Offline CD and Ran it successfully
Downloaded the prior said Dapper ISO and burned a bootable CD with that image
Put that CD in the Breezy machine.
Then:-
* In Adept go to Manage Repositories and change "breezy" to "dapper"

* Click "Fetch Updates"

* Click "Full Upgrade"

* Click "Commit"
Result:- Nothing happend

Then I did the commandline options on apt-get , but that too did not work.

I can see the Automatix specific automatic-sources.list files also in /etc/apt folder.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks a lot for the followups and help.

[Fenyx]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner, as my sister needed to use the PC the whole day (on Windows, of course ).

[Inserted an important note at the bottom. It might be good if you read it first, as some of my answers might make your head spin a bit ]

Anyway, back to the topic at hand:

1. The Desktop CD (formerly known as Live CD) cannot be used as a repository, as aysiu so kindly explained, because it doesn't contain any .deb files to be installed. So that CD is practically useful only if you want to run a Live CD, or start a fresh/clean installation. In short, it's useless for upgrading an existing Breezy system.

2. It will be practically useless to change that line for the CD-ROM repository. I suggest you just delete that line

3. sources.list: if you look closely, not all lines in that file are commented, or at least they shouldn't be. If they are, then that is the root of your updating/upgrading problem. There are no enabled/uncommented repositories, that's why there are no updates beings shown. I guess you probably accidentally disabled the repositories when you edited them in Adept.

A typical souces.list looks like this. Note, do not just copy-paste this list, as it contains repositories that are specifically meant for my country's local server. Just compare it with your own sources.list. Or you could try removing the "ph." from the repositories. Also note that I have the multiverse repositories enabled. I just put it there because the libxine-extracodecs package that amaroK needs to play MP3s in Dapper is located there:

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted
deb-src http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
deb http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe multiverse
deb-src http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
#deb http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
#deb-src http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

I emphasized the intances of the word "breezy". You are supposed to change those into "dapper". (I'm not sure about the breezy-updates if they translate to dapper-updates).

Try that and it should work.

Important note: I'm guessing that you are quite new to this upgrading game. If you are might I suggest a few links to help you a bit:

All thanks to the mighty aysiu for giving us the gift of his knowledge.
1. Copy the sources.list from this page: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources.php
2. Follow the instructions on this page: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/dapper.php

[kubicle]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

@Jucato
Err...didn't vinodis mention earlier that he/she doesn't have an internet connection :P

i have no internet connection. will that make a difference?

@vinodis
Get your hands on the 'Alternate Install CD' (text-mode install CD)
(I assume you have internet connection available elsewhere)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/

Follow aysiu's step by step instructions on how to add that CD as a repository and upgrade:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=5477

I'd recommend waiting for a few days and dowloading the release version 6.06 when it's available

[Fenyx]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

Er... sorry about that. Wasn't really thinking straight last night (it was late at night here when I posted that... )

[kubicle]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

No worries, happens to us all...it's easy to forget what was mentioned earlier in each thread if you're an active poster and helper (like you are)

[vinodis]

Re: Announcing Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate

Omg!
Thank you very much Jucato, aysiu and Kubicle
I have been trying hard for couple of days to get this done. Tried a lot of times with vms inside vmware. Now I know why it did not succeed
The offline upgrade cannot be done with the Desktop/Live CD.
I have given a download for http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/6...rnate-i386.iso

Hopefully that would help me upgrade.

Thank you again.!