heynnema
June 15th, 2012, 12:45 AM
Well, as a long time Ubuntu user, I'm stumped with trying to upgrade my Sony laptop from a solid 11.10 64-bit installation, to 12.04 64-bit. It's blown up THREE times already! I hope you can come up with some/any suggestions for me.
First try, I made sure that all of my 11.10 updates were current, then I clicked on the UPGRADE button in Update Manager. Mistake. I ended up with a totally fried system. With past upgrades, if there were upgrade problems, I could usually fix them. Not this one! I restored my OS from my backup.
I did some research, and there are mentions about needing to update APT and DPKG... but mine look like the correct versions required.
Then I tried booting to the Alternate CD, and hoped that it would ask me about doing an upgrade install. It didn't. I selected use the same partition that Ubuntu was currenly on, and it installed a minimal 12.04 system! All my apps were gone. The dock only had 3 icons. A mess. I restored again.
More research. I found mentions of disabling multiarch, and went to try again! This time I booted into my normal 11.10, inserted the alt CD, and approved the desire to upgrade. It wants to remove over 500 of my applications/etc! Stuff that I want/need. I aborted.
Help, please!!!
Al
:(
First try, I made sure that all of my 11.10 updates were current, then I clicked on the UPGRADE button in Update Manager. Mistake. I ended up with a totally fried system. With past upgrades, if there were upgrade problems, I could usually fix them. Not this one! I restored my OS from my backup.
I did some research, and there are mentions about needing to update APT and DPKG... but mine look like the correct versions required.
Then I tried booting to the Alternate CD, and hoped that it would ask me about doing an upgrade install. It didn't. I selected use the same partition that Ubuntu was currenly on, and it installed a minimal 12.04 system! All my apps were gone. The dock only had 3 icons. A mess. I restored again.
More research. I found mentions of disabling multiarch, and went to try again! This time I booted into my normal 11.10, inserted the alt CD, and approved the desire to upgrade. It wants to remove over 500 of my applications/etc! Stuff that I want/need. I aborted.
Help, please!!!
Al
:(