Last night I upgraded from Ubuntu Breezy to Dapper (instructions below) to take advantage of the improvements I’ve heard so much about. We all know that Dapper isn’t officially released which means it is not recommended for day to day boxen, but so far I haven’t run into any problems.
Copy the text between [snip] & [/snip] and paste over your existing sources.list when you sudo gedit (this is the second sudo command listed below.
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[snip]
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the ‘universe’
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the ‘backports’
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse
## Backports
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
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Thanks for the info. will give this a shot today.
Thank you!! This worked great. My old PIII 600 laptop is MUCH happier (and therefore me!).
Cool
Thanks for the information!
I don’t reccomend this recommend this approch (well not yet anyway) I’ve just tried it and it has messed my system up.. getting X errors on boot. I knew I was taking a risk..
I don’t recommend this method right now. Some of the newer Dapper packages have errors and wreck the X window system. Thanks for the information, though. I’ll be sure to use this update method when Dapper is released.
Dapper install iso never worked for my PowerBook G3 Firewire Pismo. So I upgraded from Breezy without a problem. Only 1 question: do I have to do this on a regular bsis if I want the most recent Dapper build?
Be careful doing this. I screwed up my X-server and it took dear time to fix it. Rather than rushing onto Dapper flight, await the stable release.
If this breaks my X-server how do I fix it?
Thanks for the great info. Smooth install and i’m now enjoying dapper.
Just upgraded my breezy ubuntu-server to dapper. All seems to have gone through without a hitch.
Thanks
If you Xserver breaks, it should tell you where the errors are. More than likely the installation process cleaned the kernel and got rid of any proprietary drivers like the Nvidia or ATI drivers. All you need to do to get it back is, from the command line:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-sources
I did that and was able to start X just fine.
Thanks for the great steps! It’s installing now, so we’ll see how it turns out
users of custom built kernels will probably have to update to kernel version 2.6.12 or newer (initramfs-tools will fail to configure properly otherwise)
there is an easier way to do this
gksudo “update-manager -d”
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing
finally found what i was looking for, thanx guys, my PIII555 will be up and running again after its 3rd hard disk failure!
the 555 is now running gutsy! as will the 666 very soon! thanx for the info =)
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