Comments on: Ubuntu Quickie: Enable Dapper Repositories

By: Paul Ricketts

Paul Ricketts — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:17:28 +0000

http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic

By: CliftonSnyder.net » Dapper Multimedia

CliftonSnyder.net » Dapper Multimedia — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:53:33 +0000

[...] First, you’ll want to set up your apt sources like so. Then, run this apt-get command (ed: minus skype and realplay), and (theoretically) your multimedia will all Just Work ™. [...]

By: krsnendu

krsnendu — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:34:01 +0000

I did update with update manager.
Then changed to dapper repositories.
It doesn’t prompt me to upgrade to dapper.
What’s wrong?

By: Linux Newbie - A Linux World Net Blog » Blog Archive » Upgrading Ubuntu Breezy to Ubuntu Dapper

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:48:34 +0000

[...] Today is the day..Ubuntu Dapper(6.06) is officially out! I tried to do a sudo apt-get install update which didnt find the site. I am guessing the site is getting pounded and I tried at least 10 times. After that I finally decided to try something different. I found Adept Updater which installed all the updates through a GUI. Now it’s time to upgrade the distro. I tried sudo apt-get install dist upgrade which gave me the same results as the update. I decided to try the Synaptic Package Manager to try the upgrade to Dapper. I tried to bring it up twice with no luck. I am not real familiar with it but I assume it tries to connect to the Ubuntu update site on start up? After this, I try to use the newly found, for me, Adept Package Manager Adept looks similiar to Synaptic so I decided to give it a try. I thought there would be some kind of notice that there were Dapper upgrades available. This was not the case. I didnt have the Dapper repositories so now its time to Google After searching Google for a bit, I found that I used a slightly wrong command for the distribution upgrade. I should have used apt-get dist-upgrade…which unfortunately didnt work either. I ended up getting an error message this time E: Malformed line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) . What does that mean?? Oh well..lets try something different.. I then found a little help on the net here Adding Dapper Repositories. I found out what the error was on line 3..some kind of junk that got in there. Once I got that out then the sudo apt-get update worked fine. I then ran the apt-get dist-upgrade. I let it download the 937M worth of files! It took just over an hour to download all of the packages. The configuration of the newly installed files took over an hour and a half. [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:16:42 +0000

I use Kubuntu and from what I notice it uses the same repositories from a base install.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 24 May 2006 19:30:05 +0000

Eek, yeah there is a difference between the two. Kubuntu uses the KDE window manager and now that you have added Ubuntu repositories and updated, it just installed a bunch of Gnome stuff. Perhaps, try to find out if there are some equivalent Kubuntu repositories you can update instead, on those forums.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:48:35 +0000

Correction, Kubuntu, not Ubuntu. I’m rather new to this and current receive a distinct feeling that makes a difference, yes?

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:48:18 +0000

Correction, Kubuntu, not Ubuntu. I’m rather ne to this and current receive a distinct feeling that makes a difference, yes?

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 24 May 2006 06:17:21 +0000

Frank, you’re in Ubuntu and not Kubuntu right? Update all of your packages as Dapper Drake is a major update so things might not work in their older form. As a last ditch effort check out ubuntuforums.org.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 24 May 2006 06:12:17 +0000

I tried this and now Konqueror is not working for directory contents examination. I have also lost Open Office and Ark and who know’s what else. Any suggestions?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 May 2006 01:10:24 +0000

I was just checking because I was considering formatting and just starting fresh because i had just installed breezy only a day or two ago, so i haven’t really set anything up yet. I just did your method and I do like the result so far.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 16 May 2006 23:40:18 +0000

Yeah pretty much. However, I did this because I already have a computer loaded with Breezy Badger.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:05:39 +0000

Are these for updating fully to dapper from breezy? Will this be pretty much the same as just installing from the cd?

By: Sean Hill

Sean Hill — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:54:51 +0000

This is gold. Dapper really ought to have these sources in the sources.list file but commented out by default, as many things (such as liblame) simply are not installed and are hard to find if you don’t know just where to look.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:15:45 +0000

Yes, I have used Gentoo for over a year. The emerge system is really nice. I actually prefer it over apt-get but even getting Gentoo to install requires some skill. I like how emerge compiles on the spot so all of your apps are optimized, however that takes a long time. Updating the latest firefox takes like 15 minutes.

By: Mik

Mik — Sun, 14 May 2006 15:43:06 +0000

All talk about Ubuntu and his fabulous update system “apt” Have you ever try Gentoo with portage???
What the differences???
I’ll try that :-)