Hoary iso releases

Kent Frazier kentfrazier at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 05:04:49 UTC 2004


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:25:24 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:53:56PM -0600, Kent Frazier wrote:
> > Be forewarned that I have not been successful at all in using these to
> > install.  The installer goes through just fine, but at least as of
> > December 17 (and Array 2), there was a python conflict between 2.3 and
> > 2.4 (some packages still rely on 2.3 but python has been upgraded to
> > 2.4) that prevented the ubuntu-desktop meta-package from being
> > installed, leaving the user with a far from complete install.
> 
> If you don't tell the installer to retrieve packages from the network,
> you shouldn't run into this class of problem.

Didn't think about that.  Makes sense though.  I'll have to try a
fresh install if I continue to be unable to boot into Ubuntu.  Thanks.

Kent




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