software updates

Tom Mckay tom.mckay1 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 09:17:12 UTC 2009


Simply copying/restoring all files in /home will
superficially recreate your settings, however, system-wide programs,
such as apache, store their files in /etc . I suggest you backup all
of the applicable folders from /etc , and copy them back AFTER you
install the applications again, and hopefully your settings will be
maintained. To prevent future headaches, I suggest you maintain /home on a
SEPARATE partition, and perform backups regularly. Having /home on a
separate partition has many benefits, more than I have the time/energy to
get into deeply. Believe it or not, I just got off work (5:00AM !!!).
Best of luck,
Tom McKay


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
> Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: tdwebste2 at yahoo.com, The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: software updates
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:23:51 -0400
>
> Me again.
>
> This problem was never solved. at times it seemed to be solved and then
> more problems.
>
> I found a web page that seems to be the same problem that I am
> experiencing
> http://r3dux.org/?p=500
>
> His final solution was to backup HOME and reinstall 9.04.
>
> Is there anyone on this group that has had this same problem?
>
> IF I backup home and then install ubuntu 9.04 and then copy my backed up
> home to my new home directory
> this will not restore every thing (apache web server pages etc).
>
> So what all should i back up so that I can get back to where I am now?
>
> Doug
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>        This was the site that was doing most of the crashes but other
>        sites also crashed it.
>
>
> http://www.hancockwildlifechannel.org/staticpages/index.php/20090302200021473
>
>        I ran this site all afternoon yesterday and no crashes.
>
>        doug
>
>
>
>
>
>
>        On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Timothy Webster
>        <tdwebste2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>                Doug,
>
>                Assuming you found a firefox configuration that does not
>                play nice!
>
>                Do you have the same firefox addons enabled now as
>                before.
>                Was this a problem with flash sites or all websites?
>
>                -Tim
>
>
>                --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Doug Stewart
>                <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>                        From: Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
>                        Subject: Re: software updates
>
>                        To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community"
>                        <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>                        Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 6:43 PM
>
>
>
>                        On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Doug Stewart
>                        <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>                                On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Arthur
>                                Amendt <amendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>                                        Check your Software Sources file
>                                        (System -> Administration)
>                                        uncheck 3 party sources then go
>                                        to terminal at type sudo dpkg
>                                        --configure -a
>
>                                        This has worked for me.
>
>
>                                        On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:00 AM,
>                                        Doug Stewart
>                                        <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>                                                I am running ubuntu 9.04
>                                                and my update manager
>                                                tells me there is a
>
>                                                Distribution update
>                                                libmlt-data
>
>                                                file that I should be
>                                                installing. The problem
>                                                is: that I cannot get a
>                                                checkmark to show up so
>                                                that it will install.
>
>                                                What am I missing?
>
>                                                Doug
>
>
>                                                --
>
>
>
>
>
>                                Thanks to Tim and Arthur
>
>                                I looked at the Logs and found nothing
>                                to help. But I did notice that it only
>                                hapend when Firefox was running, so I
>                                removed Firefox
>                                 and reinstalled. So far so good  - will
>                                let you Know if it happens again.
>
>                                Thanks again
>                                Doug
>
>
>
>                        Firefox with video has run since 12:00 with no
>                        crash . so this is closed now.
>
>                        Thank
>                        Doug
>
>
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>                 Might be that you need to install the same set of
>                programs, you had the last time, then everything may
>                come back OK!
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