I wanted to upgrade my Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, but failed trying to do the obvious stuff.
Using Update Manager, I got the following error message:
W:Failed to fetch
http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/maverick/Release
Unable to find expected entry
partner/binary-powerpc/Packages in Meta-index file
(malformed Release file?)##
http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/maverick/Release Unable to find expected entry partner/binary-powerpc/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)##
I asked on #ubuntu and got the reply that maybe it was probably “corruption in the server” and would go away eventually. Impatient as I am, I found a way to download the **10.10 desktop powerpc image**. What I forgot is my earlier experience with disk images: They don’t fit on regular CDs! The image I got was 709 MB which requires “overburn” when burning, ie. CDs that can take 90 or 100 minutes of audio. We just have ordinary cheapo CDs that take 700 MB or 80 minutes of audio.
Now, I did a wicked upgrade before when I upgraded to Ubuntu 10: *manually fiddling with the sources list*!! Aaaargh! 🤓 X-| >-{ ☠ ⚠
Should I try it again? Should I? Should I?
I found some instructions on how to mount the image I downloaded! ¹
`sudo mount -o loop ~/Desktop/ubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom`
But... That doesn’t help! If I want run the suggested `gksu "sh /media/cdrom/cdromupgrade"` I find that no `cdromupgrade` file exists in my image. If I mount the image and run `upgrade-software`, it doesn’t recognize it. If I try to “add a CD”, it wants a real CD and not a loopback image.
Pausing... thinking... reading... Damnation – I have downloaded the *desktop* image instead of the *alternate* image!!
Downloading the **10.10 alternative powerpc image**... Yikes! This is taking a long time. The powerpc images aren’t available from the mirrors I looked at.
[...] Installing from the mounted disk…
[...] While I wait... installing *Rakudo Star 2010.10*
[...] While I wait... installing *Bitlbee 3.0* – I have not been maintaining this laptop for quite a while!
[...] While I wait... I discover that I have a 38°C fever. 😢
Actually... software updates would give me errors, so I edited `/etc/apt/sources.list` and uncommented all the lines except for these:
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick main restricted deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick-updates main restricted deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick-updates universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick multiverse deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu maverick-updates multiverse deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ maverick main universe multiverse restricted
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