[GTALUG] Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10

Thu Jan 15 01:22:01 UTC 2015

On 15-01-03 03:44 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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> On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
>> Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface,
>> so I don't end up with Unity?
> I use the MATE interface, a Gnome2 fork. You can install it from Ubuntu
> 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr" repositories now:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mate-desktop  Install it from the
> commandline with 'apt-get install mate-desktop'

OK, I got a tech to install 14.04. So, that's done. Now I want to 
install mate-desktop. I tried your command, and got ...

chris at Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop
[sudo] password for chris:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mate-desktop is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic
   linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
chris at Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get remove mate-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   libmate-desktop-2-17 libunique-1.0-0 linux-headers-3.13.0-32
   linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic
   linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic mate-desktop-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   mate-desktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
After this operation, 97.3 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 225461 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
chris at Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic
   linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   mate-desktop
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/17.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 97.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package mate-desktop.
(Reading database ... 225454 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mate-desktop_1.6.2-1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ...
chris at Chris-Pc:~$

When I rebooted, there was no offer to choose mate.

Chris

> I'd also install the packages 'mate-desktop-environment' and
> 'mate-desktop-environment-extras', but they seem to be available only
> in 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn":
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mate-desktop-environment-extras
>
> Instead of upgrading from 14.04LTS to 14.10 to get the
> '-environment-extras' you may want to add the MATE repositories
> instead. That'll let you install the '-environment-extras' package,
> and probably provides you with a more current MATE core as well.
> There's good instructions at
> http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar
>
> - --Bob.
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> On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
>> On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken
>>> <chris at chrisaitken.net  <mailto:chris at chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
>>>> If you don't have too much on that computer, you should
>>>> probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with
>>>> the 14.04 version.   Nuke it from orbit...  it's the only way
>>>> to be sure.
>>> Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a
>>> step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or
>>>   DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh
>>> installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the
>>> installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose
>>> everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
>>>
>>>
>>> Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the
>>> "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive.
>>> You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
>>>
>>> You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine
>>>   already, you just need to download the disk ISO.
>> OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of
>> choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
>>
>> Chris
>>
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