Installing from a daily...

[Ben Novack]

Um... see, I don't have any internet access yet under Ubuntu. What do
I have to do to add the daily CD as a source from the console?


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:51:26 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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