Comments on: How To Upgrade To Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/ Enhancing your Ubuntu experience! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:29:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kris http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-10853 Kris Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:56:03 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-10853 please folks, im in desperate need of help over here!! trying to upgrade from Hardy -> Koala. I open up 'adept manager', through gksudo when i press 'alt + F2' then i click on 'fetch updates', thereafter i click on 'version upgrade' it all seems to go fine, but at the last hurdle, after i clicked 'finish' - it leaves me with this message - Unable to get exclusive lock: This usually means that another package management application (like apt-get or aptitude) is already running. Please close that application first. - the only other application manager i have installed is 'synaptic packet manager',and it wont let me delete or cancel it. Any ideas how else to do an upgrade from Hardy -> Koala, or to bypass this error??? please folks, im in desperate need of help over here!! trying to upgrade from Hardy -> Koala.

I open up ‘adept manager’, through gksudo when i press ‘alt + F2′
then i click on ‘fetch updates’, thereafter i click on ‘version upgrade’
it all seems to go fine, but at the last hurdle, after i clicked ‘finish’ – it leaves me with this message – Unable to get exclusive lock: This usually means that another package management application (like apt-get or aptitude) is already running. Please close that application first. – the only other application manager i have installed is ‘synaptic packet manager’,and it wont let me delete or cancel it. Any ideas how else to do an upgrade from Hardy -> Koala, or to bypass this error???

]]> By: Small Issue http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-10157 Small Issue Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:13:05 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-10157 Hardy (8.04 LTS) -> Koala (9.10) Was smooth w/o any visible issues. Only 1 thing refuse to work: <code> Distribution: Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop environment: GNOME Graphics chip: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) Driver in use: intel Rendering method: None </code> Hardy (8.04 LTS) -> Koala (9.10) Was smooth w/o any visible issues.
Only 1 thing refuse to work:

<code>
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.10
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
Driver in use: intel
Rendering method: None
</code>

]]> By: Disappointed http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-10076 Disappointed Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:05:46 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-10076 Well folks after reading thousands of post from sites worldwide the evidence says that over 80% of users who upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 FAIL. The upgrade does NOT work. It refuses to run KDE on start and unless you are a linux guru, it is pretty much unfixable. Most poeple from the post I've read went back to 9.04. I would love to run new Kubuntu 9.10, unfortunely the built in automatic upgrade does NOT work. sigh. Well folks after reading thousands of post from sites worldwide the evidence says that over 80% of users who upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 FAIL. The upgrade does NOT work. It refuses to run KDE on start and unless you are a linux guru, it is pretty much unfixable. Most poeple from the post I've read went back to 9.04. I would love to run new Kubuntu 9.10, unfortunely the built in automatic upgrade does NOT work. sigh.

]]> By: Noman http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-9950 Noman Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:12:11 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-9950 Oh, just found it: going to Update Manager from the menu won't show it, but running "update-manager -d" from a terminal will. Oh, just found it: going to Update Manager from the menu won't show it, but running "update-manager -d" from a terminal will.

]]> By: Noman http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-9951 Noman Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:10:18 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-9951 "If you are reading this after the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Oct 29th), this tool will automatically suggest that there is a new version available and offer to let you upgrade." OK, and if it doesn't, what then? :-) "If you are reading this after the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Oct 29th), this tool will automatically suggest that there is a new version available and offer to let you upgrade."

OK, and if it doesn't, what then? :-)

]]> By: Josh http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-9893 Josh Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:12:23 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-9893 Oh, also, as of right now, I haven't found an official Ubuntu mirror that actually has the karmic packages Oh, also, as of right now, I haven't found an official Ubuntu mirror that actually has the karmic packages

]]> By: Josh http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-9894 Josh Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:11:18 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-9894 Most of the jaunty packages will continue to work. I haven't had an issue, and I have a lot of third party repositories. But to answer your question, yes, you just change "jaunty" to "karmic" in the URLs. However, a lot of repositories don't yet have karmic specific packages, so they will give a 404 error for now, which isn't a problem. When they add karmic specific packages, it will just work automatically. Most of the jaunty packages will continue to work. I haven't had an issue, and I have a lot of third party repositories. But to answer your question, yes, you just change "jaunty" to "karmic" in the URLs. However, a lot of repositories don't yet have karmic specific packages, so they will give a 404 error for now, which isn't a problem. When they add karmic specific packages, it will just work automatically.

]]> By: Luis http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/28/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-9889 Luis Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:59:27 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=1334#comment-9889 Question! Please, what to do with the third party repositories that are for jaunty and that are currently installed on the ubuntu 9.04 system? changing the last letter from "jaunty" to "karmik" would do the job? If the version of package "X" for "jaunty" is the same for "karmik" the aptitude upgrade will install the karmik version? or it will keep the the jaunty version until an actual new version is released? Question!

Please, what to do with the third party repositories that are for jaunty and that are currently installed on the ubuntu 9.04 system? changing the last letter from "jaunty" to "karmik" would do the job?
If the version of package "X" for "jaunty" is the same for "karmik" the aptitude upgrade will install the karmik version? or it will keep the the jaunty version until an actual new version is released?

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