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{{From|https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BreezyUpgradeNotes}}
 
{{From|https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BreezyUpgradeNotes}}
 
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{{Languages|UbuntuHelp:BreezyUpgradeNotes}}
 
 
== Pre-Upgrade ==
 
== Pre-Upgrade ==
 
0. Resolve any conflicting packages. Conflicting packages could possibly stop the upgrade, even at a very inconvenient stage. For a common example, if you have the packages mozilla-firefox and firefox installed, you should perform the following:
 
0. Resolve any conflicting packages. Conflicting packages could possibly stop the upgrade, even at a very inconvenient stage. For a common example, if you have the packages mozilla-firefox and firefox installed, you should perform the following:
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<pre><nowiki>wget http://homepage.mac.com/danielg4/java1-runtime-local_1.0_all.deb
 
<pre><nowiki>wget http://homepage.mac.com/danielg4/java1-runtime-local_1.0_all.deb
 
sudo dpkg -i java1-runtime-local_1.0_all.deb</nowiki></pre>
 
sudo dpkg -i java1-runtime-local_1.0_all.deb</nowiki></pre>
 
 
== To Upgrade ==
 
== To Upgrade ==
 
 
=== Upgrading with Breezy CD and Synaptic ===
 
=== Upgrading with Breezy CD and Synaptic ===
 
0. Open up Synaptic Package Manager
 
0. Open up Synaptic Package Manager
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0. See the additional notes below
 
0. See the additional notes below
 
0. Note that you need to add the cdrom again with Synaptic "Edit/Add CD-ROM" after the first reboot,this is needed because of new package authentication feature
 
0. Note that you need to add the cdrom again with Synaptic "Edit/Add CD-ROM" after the first reboot,this is needed because of new package authentication feature
 
 
=== Upgrading with Synaptic Package Manager ===
 
=== Upgrading with Synaptic Package Manager ===
 
 
0.  Open up Synaptic Package Manager
 
0.  Open up Synaptic Package Manager
 
0.  Change your repositories to look for Breezy
 
0.  Change your repositories to look for Breezy
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0.  Click on "Mark All Upgrades"
 
0.  Click on "Mark All Upgrades"
 
0.  Click on "Apply"
 
0.  Click on "Apply"
 
 
=== Upgrading with apt-get ===
 
=== Upgrading with apt-get ===
 
 
0. Open up a terminal and run this command:
 
0. Open up a terminal and run this command:
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list </nowiki></pre>
 
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list </nowiki></pre>
 
 
Alternativly, you may use a CLI based editor like ''nano'' or ''vi'':
 
Alternativly, you may use a CLI based editor like ''nano'' or ''vi'':
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
 
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
 
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list</nowiki></pre>
 
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list</nowiki></pre>
 
 
0. Replace with the following:
 
0. Replace with the following:
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
 
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
 
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
 
 
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
 
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
 
## repository.
 
## repository.
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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
 
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
 
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
 
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
 
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
 
 
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
 
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
 
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
 
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
'''Note''': if you're not going to compile Ubuntu packages yourself, you may comment out the lines beginning with deb-src. If you don't know what that means, this applies to you. :) Comment out a line by adding at least one # character at the beginning of the line, as in the example above. Typically, two #'s are used for a textual comment, and one # is used to disable a source.
 
'''Note''': if you're not going to compile Ubuntu packages yourself, you may comment out the lines beginning with deb-src. If you don't know what that means, this applies to you. :) Comment out a line by adding at least one # character at the beginning of the line, as in the example above. Typically, two #'s are used for a textual comment, and one # is used to disable a source.
 
 
0. Run this command:
 
0. Run this command:
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade </nowiki></pre>
 
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade </nowiki></pre>
 
 
0. Just to be totally sure that everything is installed properly, run these commands:
 
0. Just to be totally sure that everything is installed properly, run these commands:
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
sudo apt-get -f install
 
sudo apt-get -f install
 
sudo dpkg --configure -a </nowiki></pre>
 
sudo dpkg --configure -a </nowiki></pre>
 
 
== Post-Upgrade ==
 
== Post-Upgrade ==
 
 
0. If not running NFS as either client or server, remove portmap, as it's no longer needed:  
 
0. If not running NFS as either client or server, remove portmap, as it's no longer needed:  
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
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0. If you are without some localisations, you may find that it is necessary to install language-pack-xx, language-pack-xx-base and language-support-xx (where xx = your language code).
 
0. If you are without some localisations, you may find that it is necessary to install language-pack-xx, language-pack-xx-base and language-support-xx (where xx = your language code).
 
0. Start "update-notifier" and save your gnome-session if you want update notification automatically
 
0. Start "update-notifier" and save your gnome-session if you want update notification automatically
 
 
0. Reconfiguring X
 
0. Reconfiguring X
** If you have manually edited your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, check for these lines:
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* If you have manually edited your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, check for these lines:
 
+
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" </nowiki></pre>
 
FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" </nowiki></pre>
 
 
The location of the fonts have changed, change all occurences of that into:
 
The location of the fonts have changed, change all occurences of that into:
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" </nowiki></pre>
 
FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" </nowiki></pre>
 
 
Do this for all the other lines as well, but be sure to keep the ending of the lines the same! so a line ending with 100dpi/:unscaled should still end with that, only change the 'lib' to 'share' in the configuration file.
 
Do this for all the other lines as well, but be sure to keep the ending of the lines the same! so a line ending with 100dpi/:unscaled should still end with that, only change the 'lib' to 'share' in the configuration file.
 
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* Alternativly, you may reconfigure your X server with:
** Alternativly, you may reconfigure your X server with:
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<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg </nowiki></pre>
 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg </nowiki></pre>
 
 
0.  Reboot in order to effect all changes (XFree86 to X.org, kernel upgrade, etc.)
 
0.  Reboot in order to effect all changes (XFree86 to X.org, kernel upgrade, etc.)
 
 
== Additional Notes ==
 
== Additional Notes ==
 
=== Mirror servers ===
 
=== Mirror servers ===
 
The bandwidth of the main Ubuntu server is not infinite. If you have a very low transfer rate, it is advisable for you to use a mirror. You can find a list of mirrors at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive (this list hasn't been reviewed for a long time and some of these servers may be down). It was made for warty, but notice that these servers are regularly synced with the main server, so you will find breezy packages there as well. Try to find a server which is located somewhere in your country or somewhere close to you.
 
The bandwidth of the main Ubuntu server is not infinite. If you have a very low transfer rate, it is advisable for you to use a mirror. You can find a list of mirrors at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive (this list hasn't been reviewed for a long time and some of these servers may be down). It was made for warty, but notice that these servers are regularly synced with the main server, so you will find breezy packages there as well. Try to find a server which is located somewhere in your country or somewhere close to you.
 
 
You will probably ask how to use a mirror instead of the main Ubuntu repository. It's quite simple. First find a server suitable for you (e.g.choose one from here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive). I will use a German mirror as an example - http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/.
 
You will probably ask how to use a mirror instead of the main Ubuntu repository. It's quite simple. First find a server suitable for you (e.g.choose one from here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive). I will use a German mirror as an example - http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/.
 
 
0. Open up a terminal and run this command:
 
0. Open up a terminal and run this command:
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list </nowiki></pre>
 
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list </nowiki></pre>
 
 
Alternativly, you may use a CLI based editor like ''nano'' or ''vi'':
 
Alternativly, you may use a CLI based editor like ''nano'' or ''vi'':
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
 
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
 
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list</nowiki></pre>
 
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list</nowiki></pre>
 
 
0. Modify the address of the server. if you used the default settings shown above you will see
 
0. Modify the address of the server. if you used the default settings shown above you will see
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted </nowiki></pre>
 
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted </nowiki></pre>
 
 
Change it to:
 
Change it to:
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
deb http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
deb http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ breezy main universe multiverse restricted
 
deb-src http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ breezy main universe multiverse restricted </nowiki></pre>
 
deb-src http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ breezy main universe multiverse restricted </nowiki></pre>
 
 
0. Run this command to finish.
 
0. Run this command to finish.
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
sudo apt-get update </nowiki></pre>
 
sudo apt-get update </nowiki></pre>
 
 
=== Comments ===
 
=== Comments ===
 
==== Comments for this upgrade ====
 
==== Comments for this upgrade ====
 
0. NDISWrapper would not load as a kernel module after my upgrade. I kept getting the error: ''FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-686-smp/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted''. To get NDISWrapper to work correctly, I had to do the following:
 
0. NDISWrapper would not load as a kernel module after my upgrade. I kept getting the error: ''FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-686-smp/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted''. To get NDISWrapper to work correctly, I had to do the following:
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
* Uninstall the current driver. Use ''ndiswrapper -l'' to get the name of the loaded driver,
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# Uninstall the current driver. Use ''ndiswrapper -l'' to get the name of the loaded driver,
 
then ''ndiswrapper -e NAME'' to remove the currently installed driver.
 
then ''ndiswrapper -e NAME'' to remove the currently installed driver.
* Reinstall the driver with the comment ''ndiswrapper -i DRIVER.inf'' using your windows driver.
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2. Reinstall the driver with the comment ''ndiswrapper -i DRIVER.inf'' using your windows driver.
* You should now be able to ''modprobe ndiswrapper'' successfully.</nowiki></pre>
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3. You should now be able to ''modprobe ndiswrapper'' successfully.</nowiki></pre>
 
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My upgrade has completely killed X, probably because of the nvidia drivers I had installed.
 
My upgrade has completely killed X, probably because of the nvidia drivers I had installed.
 
 
''Details, please.''
 
''Details, please.''
 
 
''adam mcgreggor, 20051015'' &#8212; if it's anything like my borkenness (also with a Nvida gpu), gdm will Just Not Launch, even after  
 
''adam mcgreggor, 20051015'' &#8212; if it's anything like my borkenness (also with a Nvida gpu), gdm will Just Not Launch, even after  
 
<pre><nowiki>dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
 
<pre><nowiki>dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
In my case, X fails to load, throwing up a generic 'probably malconfigured' notice, and then hanging, leaving me to  
 
In my case, X fails to load, throwing up a generic 'probably malconfigured' notice, and then hanging, leaving me to  
 
 
<pre><nowiki>kill
 
<pre><nowiki>kill
 
</nowiki></pre>  
 
</nowiki></pre>  
 
 
the {g|x}dm process. Any hints welcomed... [if my lspci output & xorg.conf would be useful, that can be done]
 
the {g|x}dm process. Any hints welcomed... [if my lspci output & xorg.conf would be useful, that can be done]
 
 
''update, adam mcgreggor 20051016'' &#8212; it appears that the upgrade hadn't completed, getting broken with a couple of packages which have now been resolved. Which is nice. Other victims may want to check that the upgrade did complete!
 
''update, adam mcgreggor 20051016'' &#8212; it appears that the upgrade hadn't completed, getting broken with a couple of packages which have now been resolved. Which is nice. Other victims may want to check that the upgrade did complete!
 
 
''matthew keen, 20051017'' &#8212; The above has happened to a few of my systems aswell, appears that the upgrade does not complete, from a terminal you may want to issue the below command, which actually completed the failed installation minus a few errors, and you will also want to change your Xorg conf as discussed above.
 
''matthew keen, 20051017'' &#8212; The above has happened to a few of my systems aswell, appears that the upgrade does not complete, from a terminal you may want to issue the below command, which actually completed the failed installation minus a few errors, and you will also want to change your Xorg conf as discussed above.
 
 
<pre><nowiki>sudo apt-get -f upgrade
 
<pre><nowiki>sudo apt-get -f upgrade
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
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''mbwardle, 20051024''
 
''mbwardle, 20051024''
 
My X server would not start complaining about being unable to find the default font 'fixed'.  I had to manually add an alias to /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.alias.  Even after performing all the other suggested steps.  I have no idea why.
 
My X server would not start complaining about being unable to find the default font 'fixed'.  I had to manually add an alias to /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.alias.  Even after performing all the other suggested steps.  I have no idea why.
 
 
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If you're upgrading using Synaptic and your upgrade seems to have paused at the "Installing software" stage, click ">Terminal" to uncollapse the terminal subwindow and check it's not
 
If you're upgrading using Synaptic and your upgrade seems to have paused at the "Installing software" stage, click ">Terminal" to uncollapse the terminal subwindow and check it's not
 
stopped waiting for user input!  Mine was asking if I wanted to restart services after an
 
stopped waiting for user input!  Mine was asking if I wanted to restart services after an
 
nsswitch upgrade.
 
nsswitch upgrade.
 
 
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No information is given about how to find out what the list of conflicting packages is, or even what a conflicting package is.
 
No information is given about how to find out what the list of conflicting packages is, or even what a conflicting package is.
 
 
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How to know if there are conflicting packages? Is it enough to do "Edit->Fix Broken Packages " in Synaptic?
 
How to know if there are conflicting packages? Is it enough to do "Edit->Fix Broken Packages " in Synaptic?
 
 
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Define "conflicting packages".  Seems like I'm not the only puzzled one based on the above.
 
Define "conflicting packages".  Seems like I'm not the only puzzled one based on the above.
 
 
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If you are not able to access CD-ROMs from the GNOME Desktop but can mount them from the command line using "mount /cdrom", you may need to add yourself to the ''plugdev'' group.  You can do this using
 
If you are not able to access CD-ROMs from the GNOME Desktop but can mount them from the command line using "mount /cdrom", you may need to add yourself to the ''plugdev'' group.  You can do this using
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
sudo gpasswd -a ''user'' plugdev
 
sudo gpasswd -a ''user'' plugdev
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
 
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The upgrade is typically of the order of 500+ MB, with OpenOffice.org alone weighing in at ~150 MB.  So, dial-up users may want to keep this in mind, possibly using the -d instruction to apt-get in order to spread the download over several dial-up sessions.  <code><nowiki>sudo apt-get -d dist-upgrade</nowiki></code> will only download until it gets everything or is interrupted by the user, and will resume where it left of if run again later.  Then you can start the actual upgrade  when you have time to answer any questions (which will happen either at the beginning or the end, typically), using the same command without the -d, as mentioned earlier in the article.
 
The upgrade is typically of the order of 500+ MB, with OpenOffice.org alone weighing in at ~150 MB.  So, dial-up users may want to keep this in mind, possibly using the -d instruction to apt-get in order to spread the download over several dial-up sessions.  <code><nowiki>sudo apt-get -d dist-upgrade</nowiki></code> will only download until it gets everything or is interrupted by the user, and will resume where it left of if run again later.  Then you can start the actual upgrade  when you have time to answer any questions (which will happen either at the beginning or the end, typically), using the same command without the -d, as mentioned earlier in the article.
 
 
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165161&cid=13787416
 
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165161&cid=13787416
 
 
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The sectioning makes it look like if you use Synaptic and the Breezy CD to do the upgrade, you don't have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, but in fact you do (or at least I had to).
 
The sectioning makes it look like if you use Synaptic and the Breezy CD to do the upgrade, you don't have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, but in fact you do (or at least I had to).
 
 
 
==== Comments copied from the HoaryUpgrade ====
 
==== Comments copied from the HoaryUpgrade ====
 
0. Only problem I ran into was I needed to reconfigure X which was solved with a <code><nowiki>sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg</nowiki></code>
 
0. Only problem I ran into was I needed to reconfigure X which was solved with a <code><nowiki>sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg</nowiki></code>
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</nowiki></pre>
 
</nowiki></pre>
 
See https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7789#c3
 
See https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7789#c3
 
 
0. For all ATI video card users, make sure to get the xorg ATI driver before restart. You can obtain that by "sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx"
 
0. For all ATI video card users, make sure to get the xorg ATI driver before restart. You can obtain that by "sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx"
 
 
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[[category:CategoryDocumentation]]
 
[[category:CategoryDocumentation]]
  
 
[[category:UbuntuHelp]]
 
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Pre-Upgrade

0. Resolve any conflicting packages. Conflicting packages could possibly stop the upgrade, even at a very inconvenient stage. For a common example, if you have the packages mozilla-firefox and firefox installed, you should perform the following:

sudo apt-get remove firefox mozilla-firefox
sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox

0. It is recommended that you have the "ubuntu-desktop", "kubuntu-desktop", or "edubuntu-desktop" metapackage (depending on which distribution you're running exactly) in order to ensure that you have the full set of default packages. Note that without these metapackages it is much more likely that you will encounter problems during the upgrade. Ed/k/ubuntu relies on the respective package to perform the successful upgrade.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-base ubuntu-desktop

0. Prevent the upgrade from replacing your Sun or IBM Java with GIJ by using a dummy package:

wget http://homepage.mac.com/danielg4/java1-runtime-local_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i java1-runtime-local_1.0_all.deb

To Upgrade

Upgrading with Breezy CD and Synaptic

0. Open up Synaptic Package Manager 0. Click on "Edit/Add CD-ROM" 0. Click on "Mark All Upgrades" 0. Click on "Apply" 0. See the additional notes below 0. Note that you need to add the cdrom again with Synaptic "Edit/Add CD-ROM" after the first reboot,this is needed because of new package authentication feature

Upgrading with Synaptic Package Manager

0. Open up Synaptic Package Manager 0. Change your repositories to look for Breezy From

URI: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Distribution: hoary
Sections: main restricted

To

URI: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Distribution: breezy
Sections: main restricted

0. Click on "Reload" 0. Click on "Mark All Upgrades" 0. Click on "Apply"

Upgrading with apt-get

0. Open up a terminal and run this command:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list 

Alternativly, you may use a CLI based editor like nano or vi:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

0. Replace with the following:

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-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://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe

Note: if you're not going to compile Ubuntu packages yourself, you may comment out the lines beginning with deb-src. If you don't know what that means, this applies to you. :) Comment out a line by adding at least one # character at the beginning of the line, as in the example above. Typically, two #'s are used for a textual comment, and one # is used to disable a source. 0. Run this command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 

0. Just to be totally sure that everything is installed properly, run these commands:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg --configure -a 

Post-Upgrade

0. If not running NFS as either client or server, remove portmap, as it's no longer needed:

sudo apt-get --purge remove portmap

0. If you are without some localisations, you may find that it is necessary to install language-pack-xx, language-pack-xx-base and language-support-xx (where xx = your language code). 0. Start "update-notifier" and save your gnome-session if you want update notification automatically 0. Reconfiguring X

  • If you have manually edited your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, check for these lines:
FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" 

The location of the fonts have changed, change all occurences of that into:

FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" 

Do this for all the other lines as well, but be sure to keep the ending of the lines the same! so a line ending with 100dpi/:unscaled should still end with that, only change the 'lib' to 'share' in the configuration file.

  • Alternativly, you may reconfigure your X server with:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg 

0. Reboot in order to effect all changes (XFree86 to X.org, kernel upgrade, etc.)

Additional Notes

Mirror servers

The bandwidth of the main Ubuntu server is not infinite. If you have a very low transfer rate, it is advisable for you to use a mirror. You can find a list of mirrors at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive (this list hasn't been reviewed for a long time and some of these servers may be down). It was made for warty, but notice that these servers are regularly synced with the main server, so you will find breezy packages there as well. Try to find a server which is located somewhere in your country or somewhere close to you. You will probably ask how to use a mirror instead of the main Ubuntu repository. It's quite simple. First find a server suitable for you (e.g.choose one from here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive). I will use a German mirror as an example - http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/. 0. Open up a terminal and run this command:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list 

Alternativly, you may use a CLI based editor like nano or vi:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

0. Modify the address of the server. if you used the default settings shown above you will see

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main universe multiverse restricted 

Change it to:

deb http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ breezy main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://debian.charite.de/ubuntu/ breezy main universe multiverse restricted 

0. Run this command to finish.

sudo apt-get update 

Comments

Comments for this upgrade

0. NDISWrapper would not load as a kernel module after my upgrade. I kept getting the error: FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-686-smp/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted. To get NDISWrapper to work correctly, I had to do the following:

# Uninstall the current driver. Use ''ndiswrapper -l'' to get the name of the loaded driver,
then ''ndiswrapper -e NAME'' to remove the currently installed driver.
2. Reinstall the driver with the comment ''ndiswrapper -i DRIVER.inf'' using your windows driver.
3. You should now be able to ''modprobe ndiswrapper'' successfully.

My upgrade has completely killed X, probably because of the nvidia drivers I had installed. Details, please. adam mcgreggor, 20051015 — if it's anything like my borkenness (also with a Nvida gpu), gdm will Just Not Launch, even after

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

In my case, X fails to load, throwing up a generic 'probably malconfigured' notice, and then hanging, leaving me to

kill

the {g|x}dm process. Any hints welcomed... [if my lspci output & xorg.conf would be useful, that can be done] update, adam mcgreggor 20051016 — it appears that the upgrade hadn't completed, getting broken with a couple of packages which have now been resolved. Which is nice. Other victims may want to check that the upgrade did complete! matthew keen, 20051017 — The above has happened to a few of my systems aswell, appears that the upgrade does not complete, from a terminal you may want to issue the below command, which actually completed the failed installation minus a few errors, and you will also want to change your Xorg conf as discussed above.

sudo apt-get -f upgrade

mbwardle, 20051024 My X server would not start complaining about being unable to find the default font 'fixed'. I had to manually add an alias to /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.alias. Even after performing all the other suggested steps. I have no idea why.


If you're upgrading using Synaptic and your upgrade seems to have paused at the "Installing software" stage, click ">Terminal" to uncollapse the terminal subwindow and check it's not stopped waiting for user input! Mine was asking if I wanted to restart services after an nsswitch upgrade.


No information is given about how to find out what the list of conflicting packages is, or even what a conflicting package is.


How to know if there are conflicting packages? Is it enough to do "Edit->Fix Broken Packages " in Synaptic?


Define "conflicting packages". Seems like I'm not the only puzzled one based on the above.


If you are not able to access CD-ROMs from the GNOME Desktop but can mount them from the command line using "mount /cdrom", you may need to add yourself to the plugdev group. You can do this using

sudo gpasswd -a ''user'' plugdev

The upgrade is typically of the order of 500+ MB, with OpenOffice.org alone weighing in at ~150 MB. So, dial-up users may want to keep this in mind, possibly using the -d instruction to apt-get in order to spread the download over several dial-up sessions. sudo apt-get -d dist-upgrade will only download until it gets everything or is interrupted by the user, and will resume where it left of if run again later. Then you can start the actual upgrade when you have time to answer any questions (which will happen either at the beginning or the end, typically), using the same command without the -d, as mentioned earlier in the article. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165161&cid=13787416


The sectioning makes it look like if you use Synaptic and the Breezy CD to do the upgrade, you don't have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, but in fact you do (or at least I had to).

Comments copied from the HoaryUpgrade

0. Only problem I ran into was I needed to reconfigure X which was solved with a sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg 0. If using the fglrx-driver package in Hoary, install xorg-driver-fglrx in Breezy 0. Some systems may require extra action to create /dev/cdrom symlinks on boot if desired:

cd /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo ln -s ../cd-aliases.rules

See https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7789#c3 0. For all ATI video card users, make sure to get the xorg ATI driver before restart. You can obtain that by "sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx"