How many megabytes is 14.04.1 upgrade?

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You can try the package "ubuntu-gnome-desktop", or even Xubuntu...


On 26 August 2014 08:49, Charles Irons <irons.charles at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Thanks to Nils Kassube
>
> Before I tried starting the download to check the size, I got advice to
> run "do-release-upgrade" and that showed me a hardware graphics problem:
>
> "Your graphics hardware may not be fully supported in Ubuntu 14.04.
> Running the 'Unity' desktop environment is not fully supported by
> your graphics hardware. You will maybe end up in a very slow
> environment after the upgrade. Our advice is to keep the LTS version
> for now. For more information see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/UpdateManagerWarningForUnity3D "
>
> This old (2005) desktop PC of mine has an Asrock P4VM8 motherboard with
> S3 UnichronR PRO OnBoard VGA that supports DX7 H/W.
>
> As a retired end user that means little to me except that it probably is
> not easy to substitute with a newer VGA board.
>
> So I will see if there is a different program instead of Unity.  Maybe
> Mate still exists and may work?
>
> When I find an answer to the Unity issue, I will then try the upgrade to
> 14.04
>
> Thanks again for your advice.  Chas.I
>
>
> On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 20:39 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>
> Charles Irons wrote:
> > I want to upgrade to Trusty Tahr but am wary of the download being
> > bigger than my data deal that is capped at 2 Gig each month.
> >
> > So please tell me how many megabytes will be downloaded.
>
> That depends on the amount of packages you have installed. Therefore we
> can't tell you a certain number. As an example, I have upgraded a system
> yesterday which had a lot of additional packages installed. The download
> was about 1GB. But before the program started the download, it told me
> the download size and asked if I wanted to proceed. So if the download
> size is too big for you, you could cancel the upgrade at that point.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
>
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