upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS without universe enabled

[bobppc]

I am new to the Ubuntu operating system.
The hardware that I was installing on is an HP Pavilion 8562 that has no other operating system option to go forward.
Previous operating systems, Win 98, and Win2000. Since this system runs on a pentium 3 processor at 500 MHZ I thought XUBUNTU 8.04 would be a good fit. Being a GUI oriented user I found the best way to start was to install 6.06 first. I then proceeded to use the upgrade manager to slowly work my way up. The first error looks like it affected gnome. During the upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10 there was a file libgnome2-perl reported as not installed. I found this file with synaptic and installed it. I also installed alien but have not used it yet. I will try to include the log files requested for reporting the issue from 6.10 to 8.04 LTS or will forward them on as requested. Thank you for any asistance you can give.

Regards,
Bob Appleton

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please enable the "universe" repository and try the upgrade again?

[bobppc (bobppc)]

That looks like it is working. Thank you.  Guess I was having a Windows moment.

--- On Wed, 7/30/08, Michael Vogt <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Michael Vogt <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 252773] Re: upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 4:40 AM

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please enable the "universe" repository and try the upgrade
again?

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252773
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Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
I am new to the Ubuntu operating system.
The hardware that I was installing on is an HP Pavilion 8562 that has no other
operating system option to go forward.
Previous operating systems, Win 98, and Win2000. Since this system runs on a
pentium 3 processor at 500 MHZ I thought XUBUNTU 8.04 would be a good fit.
Being a GUI oriented user I found the best way to start was to install 6.06
first. I then proceeded to use the upgrade manager to slowly work my way up.
The first error looks like it affected gnome. During the upgrade from 6.06 to
6.10 there was a file libgnome2-perl reported as not installed. I found this
file with synaptic and installed it. I also installed alien but have not used
it yet. I will try to include the log files requested for reporting the issue
from 6.10 to 8.04 LTS or will forward them on as requested. Thank you for any
asistance you can give.

Regards,
Bob Appleton

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for confirming that it works now.

Ideally the upgrader would enable universe automatically. But its probably good enough if we can add proper instructions to the xubuntu upgrade wiki.

[bobppc (bobppc)]

I upgraded to Universal at 6.06, then installed the libgnome3-perl.  I then installed the Gnome Desktop Environment, because the XFCE and its components don't upgrade cleanly. To be exact, the upgrade finishes but gives the command line after the reboot.  Hopefully, the Gnome desktop as my default will survive the upgrade.

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Michael Vogt <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Michael Vogt <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 252773] Re: upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS without universe enabled
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 3:19 AM

Thanks for confirming that it works now.

Ideally the upgrader would enable universe automatically. But its
probably good enough if we can add proper instructions to the xubuntu
upgrade wiki.

** Summary changed:

- upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS
+ upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS without universe enabled

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upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS without universe enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252773
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
I am new to the Ubuntu operating system.
The hardware that I was installing on is an HP Pavilion 8562 that has no other
operating system option to go forward.
Previous operating systems, Win 98, and Win2000. Since this system runs on a
pentium 3 processor at 500 MHZ I thought XUBUNTU 8.04 would be a good fit.
Being a GUI oriented user I found the best way to start was to install 6.06
first. I then proceeded to use the upgrade manager to slowly work my way up.
The first error looks like it affected gnome. During the upgrade from 6.06 to
6.10 there was a file libgnome2-perl reported as not installed. I found this
file with synaptic and installed it. I also installed alien but have not used
it yet. I will try to include the log files requested for reporting the issue
from 6.10 to 8.04 LTS or will forward them on as requested. Thank you for any
asistance you can give.

Regards,
Bob Appleton

[bobppc (bobppc)]

I upgraded to Universal at 6.06, then installed the libgnome3-perl.  I then installed the Gnome Desktop Environment, because the XFCE and its components don't upgrade cleanly. To be exact, the upgrade finishes but gives the command line after the reboot.  Hopefully, the Gnome desktop as my default will survive the upgrade.  My wife is using a laptop that has a DVD drive.  She want to play movie DVD's off it. Where do I get the Codec's?

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Michael Vogt <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Michael Vogt <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 252773] Re: upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS without universe enabled
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 3:19 AM

Thanks for confirming that it works now.

Ideally the upgrader would enable universe automatically. But its
probably good enough if we can add proper instructions to the xubuntu
upgrade wiki.

** Summary changed:

- upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS
+ upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS without universe enabled

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upgrade error from xubuntu 6.10 to 8.04LTS without universe enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252773
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
I am new to the Ubuntu operating system.
The hardware that I was installing on is an HP Pavilion 8562 that has no other
operating system option to go forward.
Previous operating systems, Win 98, and Win2000. Since this system runs on a
pentium 3 processor at 500 MHZ I thought XUBUNTU 8.04 would be a good fit.
Being a GUI oriented user I found the best way to start was to install 6.06
first. I then proceeded to use the upgrade manager to slowly work my way up.
The first error looks like it affected gnome. During the upgrade from 6.06 to
6.10 there was a file libgnome2-perl reported as not installed. I found this
file with synaptic and installed it. I also installed alien but have not used
it yet. I will try to include the log files requested for reporting the issue
from 6.10 to 8.04 LTS or will forward them on as requested. Thank you for any
asistance you can give.

Regards,
Bob Appleton

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

If you can not get a graphical login after the upgrade, could you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to this bugreport for review?

Thanks,
 Michael

P.S. There is a wiki page about multimedia codecs at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!