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dfrm39
April 9th, 2010, 10:41 PM
Hello, i am new and having lots of trouble. i am working off of this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/Feisty and when i try to follow the instructions below "download tarball manually" i get this.

chown: cannot access '/tmp/tmpaIgInN' : No such file or directory

i am super noob..leader of the noobs and have no idea what tarball means or does.

please HELP!!

thanks

snowpine
April 9th, 2010, 10:51 PM
Welcome to the forums!

There is no reason to upgrade to 7.10, as 7.10 has also reached its end of life. I would highly recommend backing up your documents and doing a fresh install of 9.10 (the current release), 8.04 (the current Long Term Support), or 10.04 (the next LTS, which is in testing now for a final release later this month).

uRock
April 9th, 2010, 10:55 PM
It may be easier to download a release that is still supported ie 8.04, 9.04, or 9.10.

Cheers,
Ronnie

dfrm39
April 9th, 2010, 11:09 PM
are you positive i can download strait to 9.10? i thought i had read that you can only download 9.10 if you have 9.04??

snowpine
April 9th, 2010, 11:15 PM
are you positive i can download strait to 9.10? i thought i had read that you can only download 9.10 if you have 9.04??

I am not suggesting you upgrade to 9.10; I am suggesting you back up your documents and do a fresh install of 9.10.

You can download 9.10 here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

As a new Ubuntu user, you are not going to have a good experience if you start with 7.04. It is totally unsupported. That is like recommending a new Windows user start with Windows 98. :)

dfrm39
April 9th, 2010, 11:15 PM
It may be easier to download a release that is still supported ie 8.04, 9.04, or 9.10.

Cheers,
Ronnie

but im pretty sure you can't upgrade to 9.10 unless you have 9.04

dfrm39
April 9th, 2010, 11:19 PM
I am not suggesting you upgrade to 9.10; I am suggesting you back up your documents and do a fresh install of 9.10.

You can download 9.10 here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

As a new Ubuntu user, you are not going to have a good experience if you start with 7.04. It is totally unsupported. That is like recommending a new Windows user start with Windows 98. :)

Oh okay. i have that download going. I've had 7.04 for a long time but never started messin around with it. I am downloading the 9.10 while using 7.04 so im guessing once the download is down there will be some problems getting it to work but i will worry about that later.

thanks for the help

uRock
April 9th, 2010, 11:20 PM
You can download and fresh install any version of ubuntu.
8.04 (http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/)
9.04 (http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.04/)
9.10 (http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/)

dfrm39
April 9th, 2010, 11:49 PM
yeah. 9.10 is downloadin. thanks

uRock
April 9th, 2010, 11:53 PM
Your welcome. By the way, welcome to Ubuntu Forums. Feel free to ask questions.

Cheers,
Ronnie