Installing from a daily...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:45:33PM -0400, Ben Novack wrote:

> My gnome desktop was made unusable by bug 1943, which is apparently
> more-or-less defeated. I find myself short on free time, but I
> obviously want to get Ubuntu up and running quickly. If I download and
> burn a daily build from Windows, and boot off of that, can I smoothly
> upgrade or install over my old install with a minimum of fuss and
> without disturbing my XP partition? I don't care about keeping
> anything on Ubuntu's partition.

You don't need to reinstall in order to get the fix for #1943.  From the gdm
login screen, press control+alt+f1 to get a text console, login with your
usual username and password, and run these two commands:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

enter your password when prompted.  When the upgrade is complete, press
control+alt+f7 to return to the gdm login screen, and login as usual.  The
problem should be fixed.

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 - mdz