[LUAU] Ubuntu and updates

[Jeff Mings]

I have never tried to convert an existing installation backwards.  I 
strongly recommend moving to the appropriate sub-version of Ubuntu 
12.04.  That would probably be the desktop 64 bit version.  This will 
probably work as an upgrade, but I would do a clean install.

Remember to grab your ISO image from your friendly neighborhood open 
source site: http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/

As you mentioned, Mate works very well.  There is one annoying issue 
with Mate that I've run into about 2/3 of the times I've used it:
If you get the error "Unable to start the settings manager 
'mate-settings-daemon'"  you will need to edit 
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop :
change the OnlyShowIn line to include MATE;   E.g., :
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=GNOME Settings Daemon
Exec=/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-settings-daemon

This problem manifests as funky looking icons, but is easily fixed with 
the above edit and a restart.

Bonne Chance,
-Jeff

On 09/05/2012 10:50 AM, J.K.Roby wrote:
> Yes,it is "You are using Ubuntu 10.10- the Maverick Meerkat - released 
> in October 2010 and supported until April 2012."
> Is upgrade available for 10.1 to 10.04 or does it require a rebuild?
>
>
> On 09/05/2012 10:43 AM, Jeff Mings wrote:
>> FYI - if you like the look of 10.1, you can use 10.04, which is one 
>> of the LTS releases.  The LTS releases have very long support lives - 
>> thru April 2013 for desktop and April 2015 for the server version of 
>> 10.04.  Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS release, which is why it's such a big 
>> deal.
>>
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>> On 09/05/2012 10:35 AM, J.K.Roby wrote:
>>> I'm running Ubuntu 10.1 and the updates stopped long ago.The upside 
>>> is the install functions perfectly.
>>> I very much like the clean desktop as opposed to the new 12.04 and 
>>> am looking at this MATE overlay.
>>> Annoying that Ubuntu updates so frequently,and I read something that 
>>> the Debian folks also give Shuttleworth grief for that. I was 
>>> offered an update to 11.x ages ago but can't get anything better 
>>> than a crippled 3G connect out here in the woods.Seems a complete 
>>> backup up and rebuild is all that is available. I get my ISOs from a 
>>> friends DSL. Aloha LUAU people.
>>>
>>> On 09/05/2012 10:25 AM, Jeff Mings wrote:
>>>> Ubuntu/HP?  You mean an HP product with Ubuntu?  Which Ubuntu 
>>>> version number and desktop would that be?
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager, 
>>>> disappeared.  If all else fails, aptitude is the best console / 
>>>> terminal-based package manager I've seen.  You can do _everything_ 
>>>> from that, with a menu-driven interface that doesn't take a lot of 
>>>> time to get used to.  I really wish the RPM/YUM package family 
>>>> under Redhat / CentOS had something as excellent as aptitude.
>>>>
>>>> Good Luck,
>>>> -Jeff
>>>>
>>>> On 09/05/2012 10:17 AM, Al Plant wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Aloha,
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my 
>>>>> boxes run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the 
>>>>> menu vanished to an auto select feature.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either. 
>>>>> Tried to update but doesnt finish install.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does any one have a suggestion to any link to a how to make things 
>>>>> install on the version of Ubuntu that is on the machine? Or do I 
>>>>> have to upgrade the version?
>>>>>
>>>>> Mahalo...
>>>>>
>>>>> ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii -  Phone:  808-284-2740
>>>>>   + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org +
>>>>>   + http://aloha50.net   - Supporting - FreeBSD  7.2 - 8.0 - 9* +
>>>>> < email: noc at hdk5.net >
>>>>> "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis 
>>>>> Carrol
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