apt sources.list unchanged after upgrading

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:03 +0200, Willy Hamra wrote:
> On 13/04/2009, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Huh, it doesn't look right ... within my /etc/apt/sources.list file
> > there is only mention of hardy and not intrepid, after upgrading months
> > ago. I'm just now spotting that. <sighs> Any quick and easy apt-get fix
> > to this?? Thanks! Ric
> >
> > --
> >
> 
> lol, that is really weird, and funny. and you never noticed any lack of updates?
> anyways, run "sudo softwareproperties-kde" (maybe
> software-properties-kde? just use TAB after writing software, it's the
> only program starting with "soft", lol)
> this runs the familiar program that existed in adept in KDE3 to choose
> sources. tick the stuff you want, choose your preferred server, check
> the 3rd party stuff if u need to delete the hardy reference, your
> settings and whatsoever, and close it. it willl ask for a reload
> (apt-get update), you can run it, or skip it if you prefer to do it
> yourself in a terminal.
> cheers

I got a giggle out of that myself. I'm used to using Adept late at night
to run the updates manually, since I'm on a satellite service with a
window of opportunity to have unlimited access between 3AM and 6AM. So,
I didn't pay much attention. With Fedora I had gotten used to the cycle
of yum -update working / not working / working / not working through
it's automatic update scheduler, which at times was not so automatic.
Using kcron, I could schedule my updates and anything else I spotted
during the day that I wanted to grab. Sometimes I yearn for the Old Days
when it all would work with 32 megs of memory. :) Ric


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