Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?

Mon May 26 23:18:51 UTC 2008

Hi Mr. Timothy Webster:

Are you making use of a Web Translator, from your Language into English?
Lately I've found dealing with people in far away places, that the Web
Translators are not that perfect, and it becomes very hard to understand
what is being said. One Company when I changed the method of shipping
sent me "Postage Destroyed", when they meant that the sending by Postage
was stopped and UPS was being used. 

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Please start using /etc/apt/sources.lists.d/ 
This is way you can have file for different locations when you are
travelling. 
And have file for gusty, hardy etc. 

This way you can have Files for different locations when you are
travelling.  The first line does not adequately describe, the WAY the
second line makes the statement. You may know what the Way is but
reading this in English makes not very much sense to me. First of
all /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ is something fairly new to me,, so I'm not
sure of all the things that you see and what properties it might have. I
just heard about it a day ago. Please start
using /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ is something I sort of understand, but
I'm not sure how you use it, because for brevity you left that out.
Don't be too worried that the E-mail may be long - I don't mind that at
all, if it adequately describes, what you had in mind. 
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If the file has the .list extension it is used otherwise it is not. So
set up all your files and enable them, adding the .list extension to
them.

Here again you say something, but it is not clear what you are talking
about. What is the File used by? You don't say this, and so while You
know that; I don't! So set up all your Files, and enable them, adding
the .list extension to them. What files are these. You have not said
which files you are talking about, so here again I'm not sure what all
this means.

I'm not trying to poke fun at you, this post is very Vague. 

I know you are away until the weekend, so  we can start again then.

Alfred!
From: Timothy Webster <tdwebste2 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: tdwebste2 at yahoo.com, The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:39:29 -0700 (PDT)

Please start using /etc/apt/sources.lists.d/ 
This is way you can have file for different locations when you are
travelling. 
And have file for gusty, hardy etc. 

If the file has the .list extension it is used otherwise it is not. So
set up all your files and enable them, adding the .list extension to
them.

--- On Fri, 5/23/08, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
        From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?
        To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community"
        <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
        Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 2:56 PM

        Hello,

        You're not alone. I had the same problem. In my case, I was able to
        hack a completed install from Gutsy (7.10) to Hardy (8.04). The
        resulting system was not pretty.

        You can see other people's attempts here:
        http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768727

        This was a pretty common issue with this upgrade. I eventually backed
        up my personal files to DVD and then did a clean install.

        The reason that you're seeing the pending updates is because your
        /etc/apt/sources.list file now points to Hardy repositories. You will
        need to get a clean /etc/apt/sources.list file.

        Switch to the folder /etc/apt.
        Check if there is a backup of the /etc/apt/sources.list, if so, open
        it in an editor and make sure that the repositories point to Gutsy. If
        you can see references to "hardy" in that file, then you'll have
        to
        get a copy of a good /etc/apt/sources.list file before any of
         those
        updates disappear.

        I have one since I have a Gutsy (7.10) system as well. I can send it
        if you're absolutely stuck and don't have a backup of your own.

        Good luck.

        Andrew.

        On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
        >
        > Hi:
        >
        > I've never done this before, that is upgrade Ubuntu over top of the
        > previous version. I bought the 6 DVD set, from www.thelinuxstore.ca due
        > to not having high speed. I Put the install disk in the drive to see
        > what was on it, if there were some docs to read, on how to do this.
        >
        > A Dialogue Box came up and said  "Would you like to upgrade, and have
        > all the Email etc transferred to the new version". After upgrading
        with
        > all 190 upgrades for Ubuntu 7.10 on Dial up, I figured lets give the 8.04
        Upgrade
        > a try. Well it said it was testing the Repositories, and then it
        >
         crashed. Trouble is when it tried this again, it had read the index
        > files on the first DVD, and I used Synaptic to load the data and DVD
        > names to use the DVD's as Repositories. When I tried to do the update
        > the Auto upgrade could not be found, and now there were 577 Updates in
        > Update, but very few of them were checked, and an error message said
        > that this could happen if the previous attempt was incomplete. Is there
        > some way to restore Updater to no updates, in other words get rid of
        > the 577 updates listed in it, so that I might be able to try this
        > again, that is do the upgrade of 7.10 to 8.04, over top of 7.10? Is
        > there some flaw in this Upgrade Software? Why does it crash?
        >
        > Alfred!
        >
        >
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