Dist Upgrade

[NoOp]

On 11/02/2009 03:41 PM, Emil Payne wrote:
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> 
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 11/02/2009 03:17 PM, Emil Payne wrote:
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>>> NoOp wrote:
>>>> On 11/02/2009 12:06 PM, Emil Payne wrote:
>>>> ..
>>>>> What the heck is lenny doing in there?  I don't see lenny in my 
>>>>> repository lists anywhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dell-Mint john # apt-get update
>>>>> Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org karmic-proposed-updates Release.gpg
>>>>> Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [1032B]
>>>> Umm... why is your repository target set for us.debian.org?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't know.  I used synaptic to re-install update-manager in case 
>>> there was a problem and it wiped out all my third party repositories 
>>> like medibuntu, so I just used it bare hoping to get an upgrade. 
>>> Synaptic showed no new upgrades or even updates, but update-manager 
>>> showed a bunch of upgrades.  Now it is telling me things like it is 
>>> unable to upgrade from lenny to jaunty.  etc/apt/sources.list and 
>>> ./sources.list.saves all have "karmic" listed as the distro.
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> Doesn't matter if it says karmic etc., at this point. You need to change
>> from us.debian.org. Use System|Administration|Software Sources|Ubuntu
>> Software and change the 'Download from:' to 'Main server', then 'Close',
>> then 'Reload'. You can of course modify sources.list, but for now I'd
>> just recommend you use the above.
>> 
>> Now, from a terminal (get out of root mode and go back to a standard
>> user mode):
>> 
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get update && apt-get update
>> 
>> and let us know the result.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Seems to be worse than that. I have
> System|Administration|Software Sources|Debian Software
> 
> Can somebody give me a list of ubuntu repos to put in sources.list?

Appears that for some reason you've installed debian. I'd say that your
install is pretty well borked. Backup any data that you need from your
home folders *first*, and then if you'd like to try recovering:

$ gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

mass replace us.debian.org with archive.ubuntu.com. Then post your
sources.list before doing anything else.

Note: the best bet IMO) is to do an in place reinstall. Don't use
karmic, use the liveCD for Jaunty. See the archives on how I did this
with my previous tests:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-May/185513.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-May/185495.html


In those tests I went back & forth between hardy and jaunty & still
maintained my home folders. I've not tried the same on karmic because
the beta livecd had issues & I've not had time to download and try the
released karmic livecd.