[GTALUG] Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10
Bob Jonkman
bjonkman at sobac.com
Sun Jan 18 23:42:46 UTC 2015
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- From the Ubuntu login screen, the desktop selector is the circle in
the top-right corner of the login dialogue box. Click on the circle,
then select your preferred desktop environment. Some desktops put a
logo in there (the Ubuntu logo for Unity, the bigfoot logo for Gnome),
but the MATE desktop just has a blank circle.
- --Bob.
On 14/01/15 08:22 PM, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> On 15-01-03 03:44 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: 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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