john_ladasky
September 3rd, 2014, 11:05 PM
Hello everyone,
I have an older laptop (IBM ThinkPad Z60m) on which I have been running Ubuntu 12.04. I find myself needing more recent versions of Python, Scipy, and Matplotlib than are provided in the 12.04 repositories. I have managed to bungle the manual upgrades of these packages (chasing down package dependencies by hand is never easy, even when I succeed).
To solve the dependency problem, I am trying to do what I always finds works, which is to upgrade Ubuntu. I want to upgrade to 14.04.1. When I attempt to install 14.04.1 from the Update Manager, I get a warning message saying that the Unity3D desktop might be too heavyweight for my system. The folks on the Matplotlib mailing list agree (but I think that 12.04 has Unity too?), and recommended that I try Xubuntu instead.
My laptop can read DVD's, but not burn them. I burned the Xbuntu 14.04.1 i386 ISO to a DVD on another system. When I insert that DVD into my laptop, it seems to try to read the DVD, however it does not boot from the DVD. I have confirmed that the first device in my BIOS boot sequence is the optical drive. Once I have booted into 12.04, I can browse the DVD with Nautilus, no problem. But without booting from that DVD, it doesn't look like I can try/install Xubuntu 14.04.
I'm mystified. Any hints are appreciated. Thanks!
I have an older laptop (IBM ThinkPad Z60m) on which I have been running Ubuntu 12.04. I find myself needing more recent versions of Python, Scipy, and Matplotlib than are provided in the 12.04 repositories. I have managed to bungle the manual upgrades of these packages (chasing down package dependencies by hand is never easy, even when I succeed).
To solve the dependency problem, I am trying to do what I always finds works, which is to upgrade Ubuntu. I want to upgrade to 14.04.1. When I attempt to install 14.04.1 from the Update Manager, I get a warning message saying that the Unity3D desktop might be too heavyweight for my system. The folks on the Matplotlib mailing list agree (but I think that 12.04 has Unity too?), and recommended that I try Xubuntu instead.
My laptop can read DVD's, but not burn them. I burned the Xbuntu 14.04.1 i386 ISO to a DVD on another system. When I insert that DVD into my laptop, it seems to try to read the DVD, however it does not boot from the DVD. I have confirmed that the first device in my BIOS boot sequence is the optical drive. Once I have booted into 12.04, I can browse the DVD with Nautilus, no problem. But without booting from that DVD, it doesn't look like I can try/install Xubuntu 14.04.
I'm mystified. Any hints are appreciated. Thanks!