Hi, I'm new to ubuntu

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 22 19:31:31 UTC 2009


On 07/22/2009 12:22 PM, Max Brown wrote:
> so if i upgrade i'll lose this problem?
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:17 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
>> On Wednesday 22 July 2009 11:43:36 am Max Brown wrote:
>> > hey thanks for the help, i'm running ubuntu 7.10
>> 
>> Which would be the one released October (10th month) of 2007 which reached its 
>> end of life April 18th 2009.  http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol  So 
>> then the repositories would have moved to here 
>> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/ and best bet would be to 
>> upgrade to at least 8.04 which is a LTS release.  See 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases for addition info.
>> 
> 
> 

Yes. As mentioned, Gutsy is no longer supported, use 8.04 or 9.04:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades

Note: You cannot upgrade to 9.04 directly[1], so you're best bet if you
want to use 9.04 is to download and reinstall:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JauntyUpgrades
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes






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