apt-get questions

**mahlerfan** · 10-27-2006

Is there a way to just upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10 with apt-get? Or do you have to actually download a 6.10 iso?

**antidrugue** · 10-27-2006

Originally Posted by mahlerfan

Is there a way to just upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10 with apt-get? Or do you have to actually download a 6.10 iso?

Yes, there is, and you can do it quite simply.

Just keep in mind that there is a (very small) risk that it won't go so smoothly. To be on the safe side, backup up your important data first.

So...

Modify the file /etc/apt/sources.list to change every occurance of "dapper" for "edgy". To do that you can use "nano" :

Code:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then

Code:

sudo apt-get update

to update the repositories.

And finally

Code:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to upgrade to edgy.

**mahlerfan** · 10-27-2006

Oh sweet! Thanks!

**EvanPMeth** · 10-27-2006

I did it yesterday, i followed the crowd and upgraded my dist. I was a little scared because i just got everything working the way i wanted it.

Used the update manager, but didnt work failed to fetch files. so i download the alternate cd torrent ( got an average of 763kb/s on a cable modem which i was highly impressed by, new record for me) and used the dist upgrade file on the cd, just mounted it as an iso.
Thats just when the fun started, rebooted got to the new ubuntu loading screen (kind of like the old one more) then gdm didnt startup because previously i tried to get auto login without gdm to work and so tty1 was trying start a startup script that was created in a tutorial ( oops forgot about that) so i changed it back to default and gdm started.
after that i logged in to my BB desktop ( not gnome, gnome doesnt work dont know why) and everything seemed fine but no programs in my menu would startup. and i couldnt access a virtual-terminal. so i went to a different tty and edit my startup script andtold it to start xterm.
In xterm i had to reinstall practically all my xfce programs, and wine32.

Everything is working now except i cant get my 32 opera to work i followed this tutorial orginally before edgy:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75940

now i get this error

Code:

/usr/lib/opera/9.02-20060919.6/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any ideas i tried reinstall installing lib32 files.

-Evan

**antidrugue** · 10-27-2006

Did you try

Code:

sudo apt-get install libaudio2

?

**EvanPMeth** · 10-27-2006

Code:

evan@evan-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install libaudio2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libaudio2 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
evan@evan-desktop:~$ opera
/usr/lib/opera/9.02-20060919.6/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
evan@evan-desktop:~$

**antidrugue** · 10-28-2006

Perhaps it would be best for you to uninstall this opera version.

Then you can either install the "official" Ubuntu version of Opera from here :
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/...616.7_i386.deb

Or the official Opera version from here :
http://www.opera.com/download/

**EvanPMeth** · 10-28-2006

thanks antidrudge

I just downloaded the static package and installed that after that it worked fine.

But for some reason the top menus were displayed as little boxes instead of font . I just changed the default font setting in the opera6.ini file to a font the at was actually on my computer.

Another problem i had was amarok said it didnt have support for mp3s, when i did before edgy. I found a post on te same problem and it said to update the xine kde packages. And that fixed it.

thanks for the help its seems i got everything back up to speed.
-Evan

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