The interface can be rather infuriating but you get a good view at what is broken/stuck. And it groups the packages so you can deal with one area at a time.
2nd this
The interface can be rather infuriating but you get a good view at what is broken/stuck. And it groups the packages so you can deal with one area at a time. |
How to update really old Ubuntu install?
- (drook)
- (39)
- May 21, 2020, 10:00:50 AM EDT
what happens when you use wget to get that file?
-NT
- (boxley)
- May 21, 2020, 10:25:02 AM EDT
Don't go straight from $ancient_version to $modern_version, if possible
- (pwhysall)
- (14)
- May 21, 2020, 11:07:43 AM EDT
Working, please wait...
- (pwhysall)
- (13)
- May 21, 2020, 11:29:22 AM EDT
You must be bored, but ok and thanks
- (drook)
- (1)
- May 21, 2020, 11:28:41 AM EDT
Well, that's Linux for you :D
- (pwhysall)
- May 21, 2020, 12:13:19 PM EDT
I noticed
- (drook)
- May 21, 2020, 03:09:00 PM EDT
So, it works.
- (pwhysall)
- (9)
- May 21, 2020, 05:21:11 PM EDT
About to punt
- (drook)
- (8)
- May 22, 2020, 11:19:32 AM EDT
What's in the logs?
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- (7)
- May 22, 2020, 11:24:13 AM EDT
Wood. HAAAAAHAHAHA!!!!
- (drook)
- May 22, 2020, 05:31:26 PM EDT
Nothing useful
- (drook)
- (5)
- May 22, 2020, 10:06:38 PM EDT
OS/2!!
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- May 22, 2020, 10:19:42 PM EDT
OS/2 is Old!
- (Andrew Grygus)
- May 23, 2020, 01:52:46 AM EDT
Progress! I think ... maybe
- (drook)
- (2)
- May 23, 2020, 02:28:01 AM EDT
I have had some success with Aptitude for apparently-borked apt issues
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- May 23, 2020, 05:12:11 AM EDT
2nd this
- (scoenye)
- May 23, 2020, 12:40:10 PM EDT
What's the toolchain you're trying to resurrect, btw?
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- (19)
- May 23, 2020, 05:12:41 AM EDT
LaTex / Lyx plus several plugins for formatting
-NT
- (drook)
- (18)
- May 23, 2020, 08:54:39 AM EDT
Can't just lift config and make files?
- (pwhysall)
- (17)
- May 23, 2020, 06:12:55 PM EDT
I set it up (apparently) 10 years ago
- (drook)
- (16)
- May 23, 2020, 08:01:15 PM EDT
Let a lazy bastard help
- (pwhysall)
- (15)
- May 24, 2020, 03:37:38 AM EDT
Lyx / LaTeX doesn't fail so usefully
- (drook)
- (14)
- May 24, 2020, 09:20:46 AM EDT
I had an old PC act up recently...
- (Another Scott)
- (13)
- May 24, 2020, 11:07:27 AM EDT
PS/2 keyboard works, but ...
- (drook)
- (12)
- May 24, 2020, 01:22:16 PM EDT
Also...
- (pwhysall)
- (11)
- May 24, 2020, 05:20:12 PM EDT
Maybe once I drop the coin on a new box
- (drook)
- May 24, 2020, 05:27:41 PM EDT
This^^^^
- (crazy)
- (9)
- May 25, 2020, 08:08:46 AM EDT
Ok, so how?
- (drook)
- (8)
- May 25, 2020, 09:38:47 AM EDT
It's been years for me since I've done this stuff
- (crazy)
- May 25, 2020, 12:15:02 PM EDT
If possible choose default instance environment.
- (crazy)
- May 25, 2020, 12:18:37 PM EDT
Re: Ok, so how?
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- May 25, 2020, 12:36:08 PM EDT
Nice. Thanks for the pointer.
- (Another Scott)
- May 25, 2020, 01:02:20 PM EDT
2) depends on your current active kernel
- (scoenye)
- (2)
- May 25, 2020, 09:38:37 PM EDT
May not matter, I believe I've bricked it
- (drook)
- May 25, 2020, 10:17:55 PM EDT
10.04 works like a dream in VirtualBox
- (pwhysall)
- May 26, 2020, 02:21:18 AM EDT
Just came across this
- (crazy)
- June 5, 2020, 07:36:13 PM EDT
Turns out there was an easy solution
- (drook)
- (2)
- June 8, 2020, 05:37:15 PM EDT
Neato.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- June 8, 2020, 08:44:33 PM EDT
On running hot
- (scoenye)
- June 9, 2020, 06:22:48 PM EDT