Ubuntu thinks it's Linux Mint

[Zoowey]

Aright, well I've got myself a rather odd question.

I like to use Mint menu in my Ubuntu 9.04 installation, so far I have been using the packages from Linux Mint 6 Felicia, which requires you just install "mintsystem" and "mintmenu".

I have used mintmenu without any problems what so ever, but just recently I wanted to try out the new version of the mintmenu which is from Linux Mint 7 Gloria (Alpha) and it required me to install an extra package since it was a dependency called "mint-info-main" and ever since I have installed that package my Ubuntu 9.04 installation thinks it's actually Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

In grub, in the list it specifies the kernel name as Linux Mint 7 Gloria and in my system monitor it does the same. I have uninstalled "mint-info-main" by marking it for "complete removal" in synaptic so it would get rid of any config files but that didn't seem to have any effect.

Now it's not that I don't like Linux Mint but the fact is, this isn't Linux Mint and it's actually messing up some of Ubuntu's native programs and some of my 3rd party programs say that they aren't compatible with the Alpha version of Mint.

This is the Linux Mint repository where I get my packages.
Simply Google "Linux Mint Repository" and it will be the first link, I'd include a link but I'm too new in these forums to do so.

So my question is, how do I fix this and get it to say it's Ubuntu 9.04 again?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.lst and /etc/lsb-release files here.

[Zoowey]

Hi and Welcome !

Post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.lst and /etc/lsb-release files here.

Thanks for the reply, it seems that I can't open my sources file. I also try to open up the Ubuntu application "Software Sources" and it doesn't do anything, this seems to be a result of the problem I've stated.

But here's my lsb-release file

DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7
RELEASE_NOTES_URL= gah! can't post this url
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Gloria
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition"

If you're wondering, I don't have any Linux Mint specific repository's in my sources.

[devils casper]

Execute this

cat /etc/apt/sorures.list

Or
Press Alt+F2 and type this

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

[elija]

Execute this

cat /etc/apt/soruves.list

Or
Press Alt+F2 and type this

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

soruves.list should probably be sources.list

[devils casper]

Corrected. Thanx !

[Zoowey]

Ok, here's my sources as an attachment cause I can't post url's yet.

[devils casper]

Your Sources.list file has lot of unneccessary Sources.
First of all, put # sign before these two source lines :

deb http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/repository remastersys/ #Remastersys
deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main #E17 Debain Repository

Save file and execute this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[Zoowey]

Ok, I've fixed the problem with help from another forum, though thanks for trying to help me here. I appreciate it.

What I did was simply modify my lsb-release file to:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"

And now it seems to be back to normal again.

About my sources, I realize it may be a bit messy but I assure you everything in there does have some kind of role. I just upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 and some of my 8.10 sources have not updated to 9.04 so I got some non-enabled repository's in there hoping they'll update soon.