Ok, so yesterday my ISP’s downtime caused some extra trouble.
Here’s what I did:
1. Tried the recommended way using the update manager in the Ubuntu Upgrade Notes and got an error.
2. Ran `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` which installed a new linux and asked for a reboot. But then nothing else happened. Yeah, wrong idea!
3. Ran `sudo do-release-upgrade` which aborted with the same error.
4. Checked out the Apple user Ubuntu forum and found a thread that recommended manually fiddling with the sources list. ¹
5. So I did. I edited `/etc/apt/sources.list` and replaced all occurrences of `karmic` with `lucid` and commented out the two lines from partners.
6. I ran `sudo do-release-upgrade` again. “Do you want to start the upgrade?” Yes!! “24 packages are going to be removed. 175 new packages are going to be installed. 1390 packages are going to be upgraded.” Sounds about right! “You have to download a total of 790M. This download will take about 1 hour 40 minutes with a 1Mbit DSL connection and about 1 day 6 hours with a 56k modem.” Just do it!
7. As the thread noted my keyboard and the mouse clicks stopped working after a while and when I was asked whether I wanted to remove some obsolete packages, I couldn’t answer. I had to shut down the laptop manually.
8. Rebooted, and was running the new Ubuntu! :D 👌
9. Running `sudo apt-get autoremove` and removed 25 packages.
I think I’m done?
alex@orientalibombus:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid
And I can already report a definite improvement. When the iBook awakens from sleep, I can reconnect to my wireless network. 😄
I uncommented the partner lines again, ran `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` – there was nothing to install, and no error messages. Good!
#Ubuntu #macppc #iBook
(Please contact me if you want to remove your comment.)
⁂
Well what do you know. We match!
robin@oscar:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid
Glad you got it all up and running in the end. I look forward to hearing what you think of it in a few days’ time :D
– greywulf 2010-04-30 19:24 UTC