Restore Dapper after Edgy

Joshua D. Drake jd at commandprompt.com
Thu Oct 26 01:40:11 UTC 2006


> 
> Questions:
> 1. How to restore a Dapper system back to its basic files without
> destroying any /home user data and having to reinstall and repartition
> the disk? This seems to me to be a basic requirement of this system.
> 
> 2. How to upgrade to the next Ubuntu version without having to depend on
> ubuntu-desktop which installs seriously outdated files?
> 
> 3. Why is Dapper 6.06x 2 revisions behind OpenOffice when OOo is an
> integrated part of the OS desktop? Note: after cleaning out all of the
> Ubuntu dated files (2.0.2) OOo 2.0.4 installs and runs just fine.
> 
> Suggestions/comments? I'm sure that I'm not the only one that has this
> issue and has corrupted their system with mixed version files.

I know that this isn't what you want.. but.. I would actually suggest:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

>From the edgy repos. I was in a similar boat recently. Edgy is working
just fine for me :)

Joshua D. Drake


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