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what the narwhal is going on here?!

I changed my sources to the ones in the above post, and did the get-apt update, and I still get:
........Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found...........

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars/opdenkamp/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lars/opdenkamp/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


should I go on with the update, or would that be a spectacularly bad idea?
....ok i decided to do it....i have a feeling this may take a while...
 
i say ditch the narwhals for the ocelots . Narwhals are a problem it seems . Koalas and lynx were not I guess .
Narwhals narwhals eels narwhals
If nothing works ,I will write you an upgrade script when I go near a computer or when I can think straight or less sleepy
 
i say ditch the narwhals for the ocelots . Narwhals are a problem it seems . Koalas and lynx were not I guess .
Narwhals narwhals eels narwhals


But I did! I changed the sources.list just like you said, cut and paste, and that's what I got! It's still looking for narwhals, apparently! Think it will come out OK?
 
It should look for oneric not narwhals .
Something funny is going on .
I will write the bash script for mint 12 lisa+cinnamon.

soon when I am less sane
 
It should look for oneric not narwhals .
Something funny is going on .
I will write the bash script for mint 12 lisa+cinnamon.

soon when I am less sane


OK sound good. Thank you. Will it matter that I sorta said screw it and went on with the update anyways? I just figured if most things got fixed without those unfound things in 11,then 12 would be OK too.

Wait... less sane!?
 
Probably it will be ok to go ahead . I will just use my sources list and add some stuff .I am a decent scripter actually.

What started with a windows problem drifted to linux drifted to cmd support and now bash scripts are involved.

Where is the sanity ???? :D ;)
 
Probably it will be ok to go ahead . I will just use my sources list and add some stuff .I am a decent scripter actually.

What started with a windows problem drifted to linux drifted to cmd support and now bash scripts are involved.

Where is the sanity ???? :D ;)

Ha, yes where indeed :p

I'm other news-the update is still going.....wow
 
Hoo boy, that didn't go well at all!
Lots of errors & warning there at the end. Nothing happens when I click shut down. Ctrl+alt+del won't work, says couldn't execute command.

I'm afraid to shut it down for fear it won't boot back up. Just gonna close it up and let it sleep tonight. Will reinstall off the disc tomorrow sometime if need be. Gonna go to bed now, I'm tired and tomorrow is my mom's birthday so I gotta get a few hours of sleep in.
Also lost wifi :(
 
Lol. It's ok, not your fault! Luckily I haven't had it working long enough to put much on it, so it'd not a big deal to reinstall from the cd & wipe every thing out. Kinda sucks, but not that bad. ;)

I think what I'll do is get a blank dvd while I'm out today, and just make a live DVD to update to 12. My data is going to be wiped out anyways, so why not.


EDIT: OK cool, i just reinstalled from the DVD and kept my data. awesome. but now that ive seen 12, i want it, so im gonna make me a live cd to install from. Also, I got a USB mouse today :p
Since I got a 5 pack of dvd-r's i might just make some live cd's of other distro's too, just to check em out.
Im thinking Ubuntu and PinGuy OS, assuming they both have the live cd option.
 
One I've always loved is Xubuntu - I've always loved XFCE as a light DM alternative to Gnome / KDE.

And I'm in the process of resetting up my VirtualBox host to start installing distros again.... :D
 
I'm looking at kubuntu actually-I'm curious to see what this KDE desktop deal is all about.
Mint 12 downloaded & burned
PinGuy OS downloading now :)
So many choices! It's fun
 
A tip so you don't go through a boat load of cds (like I did) - use a usb drive. You can download UNetbootin or another tool. This will burn the install to a usb device and it will install (if your BIOS support usb as boot device).
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Too bad about all this linux mint non-sense, hope it hasn't put a bad taste in your mouth (mint joke, sorry). Everytime I've used it, it has been very nice, sorry it seemed like a flop this time around.
 
A tip so you don't go through a boat load of cds (like I did) - use a usb drive. You can download UNetbootin or another tool. This will burn the install to a usb device and it will install (if your BIOS support usb as boot device).
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Too bad about all this linux mint non-sense, hope it hasn't put a bad taste in your mouth (mint joke, sorry). Everytime I've used it, it has been very nice, sorry it seemed like a flop this time around.


Yeah, one of these days I'll get a usb drive...money's tight right now in fact I probably shouldn't have bought those dvds today...but yeah a usb would be cheaper in the long run.

Honestly, it's probably not mints fault, I probably screwed something up lol. Although even with then new install it just did with the dvd, my brand new left mouse button still doesn't want to work right, and some other issues, so I'm not all that sure anymore...I'm hoping it all resolves with one of the other distro's I'm trying. If not I'll try completely wiping out everything with a new install and see if that helps.

Basically, everything was fine right off the bat, I just couldn't let it be, lol :p
 
@JohnGalt
Xubuntu and Kubuntu have been approved for LTS in 12.04 :D .
@sadie
You can also try Ubuntu Ultimate if you can bear the heavy colors.
You can also try peppermint OS
Kubuntu is a good KDE distro out there :).Its been a while since Linux Mint released an KDE version (The guys are pretty busy :( )
Or OpenSuse,Mandriva or Fedora .
I get one Tux DVD randomly per month ;) but my monitor woes a(and now HDD) have kept me away from all the cool distro hopping
 
Thanks, I'll keep all those in mind ;)

I got tired of waiting for PinGuy OS to download, so I'm checking out the live chat of mint 12...still having issues with mouse clicks, despite brand new mouse :( even on the lives cd-keyboard commands weren't working either...switched back to 11 and the mouse actually worked! Correctly even! Trying the live cd one more time riiiight now...

EDIT: and we have successsssssssssss! right and left mouse clickage going on here! wooo!
*ahem* yes indeed. So, i think i will go ahead and install this bad boy right here, at least for now. Which brings me to the question:

should I just have the installation process go ahead and wipe out everything, format all the partitions, or can I leave /home alone? I don't want to carry over any of the vile badness that screwed everything up, but I don't exactly know how to avoid doing that cuz, well, im a noob and I don't know where stuff is/goes/etc.
I really don't want to get rid of everything, namely some music i downloaded and my firefox bookmarks that took me a day to get set up, but if I have to in order to get things all clean and pretty and working, I will.
 
Ya know, not 5 minutes after I typed that, I brushed my touchpad by accident, and my left click stopped working :( I'm guessing it's will be ok if i avoid the touchpad. Imma put some cardboard over it or something, you know, idiot proof it ;)

Going to do the install now, will leave /home alone.
I'm assuming that it will automatically install to / if it's available? I'm pretty sure it doesn't ask, you just make the partitions and say go
 
@karandpr, that's great about the new DMs for LTS :) Did you guys here that the desktop LTS versions are now supported for 5 years (at least 12.04 will be :D), just like server !! :D
 
@JohnGalt
Xubuntu and Kubuntu have been approved for LTS in 12.04 :D .
@sadie
You can also try Ubuntu Ultimate if you can bear the heavy colors.
You can also try peppermint OS
Kubuntu is a good KDE distro out there :).Its been a while since Linux Mint released an KDE version (The guys are pretty busy :( )
Or OpenSuse,Mandriva or Fedora .
I get one Tux DVD randomly per month ;) but my monitor woes a(and now HDD) have kept me away from all the cool distro hopping

Oh, yeah, I saw that lol. I'm pretty stoked about it too.

I'm actually going to try to convert my older folks into using *nix and see how they like it - first is Mom, b/c she never does anything that requires Windows - it's all web based for her.

Dad is not gonna be as easy as he has 2 different laptops from work, both of which have Windows on them, so....but he does not have a 'personal' machine right now.

Me, well, the biggest thing holding me back in hte past was gaming - but now that I have ample space I can easily throw a simple 7200 rpm HD in as a spare and install *nix to them. Which reminds me - is there a really easy way to put multiple versions of *nix on a single drive, sharing a /home directory? I had explored this in the past, and that usually led to having separate drives for each / and /boot and a dedicated drive for /home - but with the size of HDs these days, it should be relatively easy, unless there is still a requirement for /boot to be a non-extended partition....

Oops! Sorry, Sadie, for hijacking your thread - I'll shut up now and make a new post lol.

Ya know, not 5 minutes after I typed that, I brushed my touchpad by accident, and my left click stopped working :( I'm guessing it's will be ok if i avoid the touchpad. Imma put some cardboard over it or something, you know, idiot proof it ;)

Going to do the install now, will leave /home alone.
I'm assuming that it will automatically install to / if it's available? I'm pretty sure it doesn't ask, you just make the partitions and say go

I was going to suggest that it was the trackpad an lack of native drivers for it....at least now you know!

@karandpr, that's great about the new DMs for LTS :) Did you guys here that the desktop LTS versions are now supported for 5 years (at least 12.04 will be :D), just like server !! :D

Yup, which is why they also yanked out any Java in the installation discs.
 
anyone have any idea why I cannot for the life of me get dropbox to work? tried installing from the software manager and the .deb from the website (no, not at the same time!) neither way works. It installs ok, but when i click on dropbox in the menu, it says it has to download something, does, then....nothing. No little dropbox icon in the panel tray area place,no sync option for my dropbox folder (which was left over from my previous install of 11 where dropbox worked just fine) nothing.

Also, just tried to use the dictionary that came already installed, and I get: Unable to create the data directory '/home/sadie/.mate2/mate-dictionary': No such file or directory

all of the 1-3 updates that were available thru update manager I installed, if that makes any difference.
 
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