Gutsy Gibbon - Alpha 2 released - upgrade from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon
This guide will help you to upgrade from feisty to gutsy
You can now download the Alpha two release of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, remember that this is not a stable release, so use it only for testing purposes.
If you are using Feisty, you can upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon using these commands.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
gksudo "update-manager -c -d"
For this to work be sure to have update-manager 0.59.23 from ubuntu-updates
updated 09/06/07
If you still have these errors
warning: could not initiate dbus
current dist not found in meta-release file
Please read: feisty to gutsy
(updated thanks to Michael)
These are some of the news in Gutsy Gibbon
* Gnome 2.19.4
* Gnash (Flash by GNU)
* XDG Directories
* Firefox 3 Alpha in universe repository
* Compiz Fusion by default
Update 08/25/07
Tribe 5 has been released two days ago, this is the first release after the freeze on August 16th, Gutsy comes with lots of news like:
- Gnome 2.20 on September 27th when its first Beta will be released
- The latest Gnome available
- X configuration Graphical tool
- This is a great tool, as for newbies to Linux configuring X is usally not an easy task
- New Features for Firefox
- These new features will make the plugin installation easier as now the come as a graphical tool apt-get enabled, and also comes with Extension manager
- Plug and play printer
- Installing a printer was never easier than it will be now with Gutsy, you just plug the printer and turn it on and voila!! it is installed and ready to work
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Does Gutsy come with Compiz
Does Gutsy come with Compiz or Beryl preinstalled? I heard that on some other forum.
It comes with Compiz Fusion,
It comes with Compiz Fusion, which is the join of Compiz and Beryl in this "new" project.
http://www.opencompositing.org/
Guillermo Garron
I followed stricktly your
I followed stricktly your instructions to upgrade but I get this error:
moises@ubuntu:~$ gksudo update-manager -d
No ask_pass set, using default!
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-c5ssn3/.Xauthority
STARTUP_ID: gksudo/update-manager/6247-0-ubuntu_TIME457519
cmd[0]: /usr/bin/sudo
cmd[1]: -H
cmd[2]: -S
cmd[3]: -p
cmd[4]: GNOME_SUDO_PASS
cmd[5]: -u
cmd[6]: root
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cmd[8]: update-manager
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brute force GNOME_SUDO_PASS ended...
No password prompt found; we'll assume we don't need a password.
current dist not found in meta-release file
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-c5ssn3/.Xauthority
xauth_env: /home/moises/.Xauthority
dir: /tmp/libgksu-c5ssn3
moises@ubuntu:~$
Actually it happened the
Actually it happened the same to me, this time, but anyway it appeared the window with the option upgrade, did that windows appeared for you?
Guillermo Garron
Run: gksudo "update-manager
Run:
gksudo "update-manager -d"That way the "-d" is passed to update-manager instead of gksudo.
I tried: sudo apt-get
I tried:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
gksudo "update-manager -c -d"
but the last command gave this in the console:
warning: could not initiate dbus
current dist not found in meta-release file
could not send the dbus Inhibit signal: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
I do have update-manager Version: 1:0.59.23
sudo apt-get update sudo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I get the same problems as
I get the same problems as anonymous above:
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
warning: could not initiate dbus
current dist not found in meta-release file
I am still trying to figure
I am still trying to figure out why this is happening, I have a laptop and Desktop with Feisty Fawn, on the laptop it found the new version and ask me to upgrade, on the Desktop it could not find a new version, as soon as I can come with a solution I will post it here.
Guillermo Garron
Hi, I made it work, read
Hi, I made it work, read here how I did it.
hope it works also for you.
http://www.go2linux.org/upgrading-to-gutsy
Guillermo Garron
I get to the update section
I get to the update section where it is looking for a file from the wine depository, can't connect, and the whole thing crashes. Can't get past that.
Wine repository?, It should
Wine repository?, It should disable all third party reposotories.
Guillermo Garron
Same problem here. Gets
Same problem here. Gets about three minutes in, says it couldn't get a file from the wine depository and that it's likely a network error. My network connection is fine, of course.
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