Dist Upgrade

[Emil Payne]

NoOp wrote:
> On 11/02/2009 03:41 PM, Emil Payne wrote:
>>
>> NoOp wrote:
>>> On 11/02/2009 03:17 PM, Emil Payne wrote:
>>>> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty main contrib non-free

Went ahead and tried and I get 404 errors via synaptic

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