Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 The Intrepid Ibex

Last week Ubuntu 8.10, aka The Intrepid Ibex, was released.

Time to updgrade First in my laptop.

I will be the using the 64 bit alternate cd to upgrade. This means that the upgrade will have a cd image as his source, and not the Internet. This way it’s much faster.

Before you start

• Check for updates using Update Manager
• Backup your data
• Check the Release Notes
• Download Ubuntu (I recommend using Torrents)
• Check the file hash (example: md5sum ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso)
• Be sure to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04.
• Use Gmount-iso to mount the iso file. This way cd could be mounted without having to burn a cd.

In the Terminal, go to the cd mount point (example: /media/cdrom) and type:

gksu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

And now we wait…

During the updgrade there may be some questions about replacing some configuration files. I replaced them all with the new versions.

After restarting and reactivating my Software Sources there were more updates to do. This is because Ubuntu deactivates other software sources and because I made the upgrade from the alternate cd.

Issues

• Non-Issue 1: It really seams faster
• Non-Issue 2: Install OpenOffice 3.0
• Issue 1: I was missing some software I wanted to get back.
  • gVim
  • gnuCash
  • Mail Notification
  • LAMP Server (check the link for details)
• Issue 2: Reactivate Software Sources (System > Administration > Software Sources) updating them to Intrepid.
• Issue 3: Add to re-install EnvyNG-Qt (sudo apt-get install envyng-qt) and enable the ATI driver.
• Issue 4: Scrolling in Firefox was extremely slow. I reinstalled the ATI driver and it’s fixed now.

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorgsudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

last updated: 11-11-2008

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