10 useful yhings to do after installing Karmic

Daniel Mons daniel.mons at iinet.net.au
Sat Nov 7 06:35:29 GMT 2009


Paul Gear wrote:
> If your ISP has a good local mirror [1], it's worth switching to that in
> System > Administration > Software Sources.  If that doesn't work, try
> another Australian mirror from the list.  I find iiNet's stays pretty
> well up to date and is reasonably reliable lately.
> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] You can find out whether it's "good" here:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors

Particularly around release time, iiNet have a bad habit of falling
behind (often up to 3 days from the main mirror).  Not that I blame them
(they're providing the service for free, after all).  What happens is
the main manifests are usually up to date, but attempting to
install/upgrade packages results in a 404 when the exact version of the
software the manifest points to is missing.

As before, the solution to release-time 404s for me continues to be
"wait until 30 days after a release".  The other upside to that is any
release-day bugs (which objectively speaking are common, despite the
effort that goes into betas and RCs) are generally squashed by that
time, and upgrades/new installs tend to go quite smoothly.

No matter what the software, it seems early adopters continue to be my
army of personal beta testers.  And I thank them for the service. :)

-Dan



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