[Linux-disciples] Dist-upgrade troubles

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:48:28PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> going on with you, but I would suggest going into console mode, run
> apt-get -f install, and then you should be able to install gnome stuff
> afterward.

I did as you suggested. It was a headache, but it ultimately
worked. I think there must be some sort of order-dependence
problem, because a few of the installations didn't go
through properly; I had to apt-get upgrade a few times in a
row.

But now everything seems to work fine. A few of the Ubuntu
changes seem odd to me -- like setting
/etc/alternatives/editor to nano rather than vim. I'm not
even sure that I had /etc/alternatives/editor set before ...
I dunno, it seems to me like the default behavior should
involve the EDITOR environment variable somehow.

The new Ubuntu startup graphic features the words "Ubuntu:
Linux for human beings." That gave me a bit of a chuckle.

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