<div>Hi, Scott. </div> <div> </div> <div>I just bought this box last weekend. I have nothing on it that I need to keep. My objectives for the box are just to run Ubuntu and Erlang. </div> <div> </div> <div>The only thing I want to avoid is hardware incompatibilities, that would leave me with a humming box. It's a Dell Inspiron 910. It was sold with Ubuntu on it. Do you think I need to worry about driver incompatibilities? </div> <div> </div> <div>Other than that, I'm very willing to install the latest Ubuntu from scratch! How do I do it? </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> Regards, </div> <div> </div> <div> Rick<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:59 PM, W. Scott Lockwood III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@guppylog.com">scott@guppylog.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hey Rick,<br><br> So, it seems you’re not running 9.04 after all. It looks like you are on<br>8.x. What I would do at this point, is back up any data you have on the<br> machine that you want to keep, and install the most recent LTS release from<br>scratch. Let me know if you need help with that.<br> <div class="im"><br>--<br>W. Scott Lockwood III<br><br></div>From: Rick Hedin [mailto:<a href="mailto:cubsno1@gmail.com">cubsno1@gmail.com</a>]<br>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:47 PM<br>To: W. Scott Lockwood III; <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Like to pay for hands-on support<br> <div> <div></div> <div class="h5"><br>Hello Scott. Just getting back to this after a long day at work.<br> <br>Would it be appropriate for me to copy your sources.list file? I think<br>that's where the repositories are recorded, and where apt-get gets its<br> information. <br> <br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Rick<br>On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Rick Hedin <<a href="mailto:cubsno1@gmail.com">cubsno1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>Good morning, Scott.<br> <br>I tried sudo apt-get install erlang. It said "E: Couldn't find package<br>erlang." <br> <br>I think my problem is that my sources.list file doesn't have the right<br>entries. When I go to System -> Administration -> Update Manager, it says<br> "New distribution release '9.04' is available." (I guess I was inaccurate<br>that I am already at 9.0.4) When I click Upgrade, it says "Upgrading to<br>a no longer supported version." When I click past that, it says "Extracting<br> the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the<br>server." All my interactions with the internet work great. There is no<br>firewall (I'm in my house). I think it's the server. Specifically, not<br> pointing to a valid server.<br> <br>If in the Update Manager, instead of clicking Update, I click Check, it says<br>"Downloading package information" for a while, then it says "Could not<br>download all repository indexes." I think my problem is " . . . ensure the<br> repository address in the preferences is correct." It gives me a long list<br>of complaints, from "Failed to fetch<br><a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-security/main/binary-i386/P" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-security/main/binary-i386/P</a><br> ackages.gz 404 Not found [IP: 91.189.92.167 80]" through "Failed to fetch<br><a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-updates/multiverse/source" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-updates/multiverse/source</a><br> /Sources.gz 404 Not found [IP: 91.189.92.171 80]" <br>I hope this is enough information to enable you to deduce what the problem<br>is. I hope your day is productive and pleasant.<br> <br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Rick<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>I insist on rapport!<br>