So I have 2 versions of ubuntu installed on my computer, how can I delete the older version, which the last version installed? Without ruining my grub because I deleted the partition but had to reinstall it because grub was running through the newest installation for some reason. So I have ubuntu 9.10, windows 7, ubuntu 9.04 operating systems on my laptop. Those are the order that they were installed.
View 2 RepliesLet's say that I've installed the following versions of R on my computer.
R 2.10
R 2.11
R 2.12
Is there a bash command which can be used to getst of all versions which are installed.I've used dpkg --get-selections | grep r-base but that just return 'r-base' and i'd have no info on the version.
Like i'm curious what version of wine i have installed...What are my current ati drivers installed...If wine isn't 1.2 or 1.3 how do i update it from command line?really any insight into this process would help its not absolutely critical to know but i've been looking around and haven't found informationOr some references to good articles to become a command line guru would be cool as well.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI want to build deb packages for two versions of same product that can be installed on the machine simultaneously. The source folder structure for both the packages have a common folder needed by both the versions. So i need to keep the common folder till both the versions are removed from the machine.My problem is that i can't install both the versions at the same time, i.e i have to uninstall the installed version and then install the other version. After installing one version, if i try to install another version, an overwrite error comes up. is there any option in dpkg for overwrite? Or is there any way to partially uninstall a deb package?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to have 2 diffrent versions of a package installed at same time. This is the command i use "apt-get install myprogram=versionID" Problem is, that when i install the version i wanna add, it REPLACE it with the old I dont wanna replace, i wanna keep them both.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have matlab installed on a network (I am not the administrator) and we usually start the program by typing "matlab", then choosing one of the version options from the menu i.e. typing "n". So because of this, trying to run matlab programs or commands directly like this... matlab -r ProgramName
...does not work. I just get the menu as usual and everything else is ignored. I assume the admin has overridden the matlab command with their own custom script. So my question is can I start a specific version of the program by specifying the folder that the version is in? I thought it might be something like /opt/matlab/version -r programname
this might look foolish, but I am a bit of a linux noob. Let me know if I should just ask my administrator but I thought there might be something easy I am missing.
I have a minimal install, and want to download the latest versions of only the packages I have installed.
What is the easiest way to do this with slackpkg?
So far it seems to want to download everything...
I have this in sources.list:
I ran the command to add the key before I tried to install.
## Opera web browser:
#wget -O - [URL | apt-key add -
deb [URL]
I get this warning when I agree to install Opera:
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!
Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security. You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that this is what you want to do. Opera
Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No":
I'm not to clear on the difference between LTS versions and other versions, but think I may want to go with LTS. Can someone tell me if my thinking is correct given the following situation: I have some very cool, but very expensive software installed with a group license from my school, a school which I am not going to be attending for too much longer. So I want to go as long as possible without reinstalling Ubuntu, because once the product is licensed it will be licensed until I reinstall Ubuntu (or I uninstall the program). So I think this is going to require me keep the Ubuntu version I install as long as possible.
So in this case, should I go with 10.04LTS or should I just install Natty Narwhal and keep that as long as possible? It looks like 10.04LTS will be "supported" longer, but I'm not exactly clear on all that "supported" entails. Presumable it means security and software updates will be available for 10.04LTS for much longer than 11.x versions? So I'm thinking I should go with 10.04LTS
Is my thinking correct in going with 10.04LTS? Edit: It was pointed out that this would be against my contractual agreements. Which I suppose is probably true.
Would like to download Dapper and Breezy. Where are the archives located?
View 3 Replies View Relatedinstalled the latest version of R ( R.2.11.1) in my machine and I can run that by simply typing "R" in terminal but I need to install the old version of R ( R.2.9.2) since some packages don't support the new version. I have the .tar.gz file of old version. How can I install that? How do I run in terminal ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedJust tried to run an apt-get update on my 8.10 Ibex server and got lots of errors about missing Packages.gz files. Checking the archive site [URL] shows that all Intrepid directories are missing!
View 6 Replies View RelatedTrying to get the thunderbird localization working I briefly checked thunderbird 3, to see if it had the same issue. Now, the problem is, I accidentally installed new versions of Firefox 3.5 and XULrunner. If I remove them, then many other packets get removes due to dependencies. Same if I try to force version. If I simply remove the repos, then synaptic reports them as broken. Is there anything I can do to solve this? How stable are the updated versions? How often do they get updated?
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have the pre-insalled system managed version 3.18 but im trying to isntall/run a newer version but they open as 3.18.
ive tried installing Firefox 2 thru synaptic and the newest 3.6 from [URL] both open as 3.18
is there some config file i have to change or something?
I'd like to put Sabayon 5.2 onto a 2GB USB pen in order to install on a PC. However when I opened UNetbootin I noticed the highest version for Sabayon was 4 [picture attached]. Is it worth trying? Otherwise what is the best alternative to UNetbootin?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu 8.04 CD & I want to install it. I'm still learning the basics and I don't want to upgrade the version. You know, the newer the version the more space it takes.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've from different sources that the TraceMonkey JS engine is available:
1) in 32-bit Fx 3.5+ and 64-bit Fx 3.6+
2) only in 32-bit Fx 3.5+ (and 64-bit nigthly builds)
3) in both 32- and 64-bit Fx 3.5+ etc. I've heard that to run TM one has to have the entry javascript.options.jit.content set to true - I have this entry and it is set to true by default (and I use 64-bit Fx 3.5).
I've found lots of posts about reinstalling applications when they're already installed but I'd like to install Mediawiki v1.14, instead of the current v1.15, in order to replicate an older Windows implementation of Mediawiki. I've installed Ubuntu desktop 10.04 and Synaptic offers me only v1.15 of Mediawiki. So can I use Synatpic or the Ubuntu Software Center to obtain this slightly old version 1.14 of Mediawiki? If I use Synaptic to obtain v1.14, will it also provide the additional packages (Apache, PHP, MySql etc.,) in the same way that it would for v1.15?
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow can i run old software versions in lucid. For example I have to run Postgresql 8.3 on lucid but if I do apt-get then I get Postgresql 8.4, which is not what I want.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy main computers are still on 8.04 and 8.10 versions, and it's certainly time to upgrade with a new LTS version 10.04. So, what's the best way to upgrade? I certainly want to maintain my current setup and data for apps like my email (I use sylpheed) and Firefox.
Should I just use Update Manager? It is currently offering me 9.04, for example, does that mean I will need to upgrade through each version a step at a time, or can I jump some versions?
I'd like to set my comp up to dual boot with lucid and the maverick alpha. Currently I have lucid with a separate home partition. Is it possible to have both instances of ubuntu using the same home partition? or will this corrupt it in some way?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been having some odd kernel issues recently. A while back I installed 2.6.32rc6 when I first upgraded to 9.04, because it solved issues I was having with surround sound. A few months back I installed mythtv and the mythbuntu binaries as well, although I have since uninstalled them. All of a sudden, I seemed to have issues booting into ubuntu with certain versions of the kernel, where it would just freeze at the white ubuntu logo, while other versions of the kernel would load fine (I think 2.6.31?) but it would display the mythbuntu logo instead (not sure if this is related).
I just upgraded to 10.04, and I still seem to have issues booting with certain kernel versions. Right now I'm running 2.6.32-020632rc6-generic which seems to work, but it's outdated, and I have surround sound issues again. Which one should I be using? Is there a way to clean this mess up? How do I fix the problem of freezing at the boot screen?
I'm using latest Ubuntu version 10.10 and I want to try Firefox Beta, but don't want to replace the one I;m using now which is 3.6.13.
I have downloaded Firefox 4 Beta andd extacted file to a /Home Folder/(My username)/Firefox 4 (Beta)/
and I wen to that folder and clicked on the Firefox link bu version 3.6.13 came up. in another window. Do I have to close Firefox ad re open it or do I have to do something else?
I have installed GCC 4.5.1 using senaptic. But typing gcc in any terminal still calls the older version of gcc. I see that in /usr/bin gcc is a link to the older gcc. Would it be OK to replace that link with the new one poiting to the newer version of GCC?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am new to linux and I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop. Thing is, I have both Ubuntu and Windows 7 running and everything was fine. But there was an update that Ubuntu did on the system, and now when my pc boots, I have 2 series ( 2 times Ubuntu, 2 times Ubunti safemode, 2 times memory test, 2 times memory test safemode) of choices for Ubuntu and one for windows 7.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I've been trying to install 11.04 on my laptop for a couple days. I tried the USB install a countless amount of times, and I tried upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 to 11.04, but it never worked. I finally installing it from Windows by the wubi installer, and now it works perfectly.
What I want to do now is remove 10.04, as well as GRUB. GRUB first comes up, and I select my Windows partition. Then I choose Ubuntu to load, and then another GRUB comes up. how do I remove 10.04, as well as make loading Ubuntu more simple?
I've just done an upgrade install from Maverick to Natty, and noticed (while poking about in Synaptic) that version 4.4 of g++ was installed alongside 4.5. (Further investigation revealed that this was the case for both gcc and gcj as well.)
If anyone here installed Natty from scratch, could they look in Synaptic and tell me if both versions come installed by default? Or can I assume the presence of 4.4 is simply because it was installed under Maverick and get rid of it?
I'm using the "Ubuntu Classic" interface (i.e. Gnome) and admit that I don't know if it's possible to get the required information from Unity's "Ubuntu Software Centre".
I did "uname -a" and it's showing that I'm using 2.6.31-16-generic of the Linux Kernel. Now, in the GRUB2 boot menu, it's showing
2.6.31-14-generic & recovery
2.6.31-15-generic & recovery
and the current one: 2.6.31-16-generic & recovery.
I would like to remove the old ones because of the pileup they're creating.
Other info: I have wXP pro as my dualboot OS.
I have a dual boot desktop with WinXP on C: and Ubuntu on D:. GRUB 2 handles the start-up. Having installed multiple updates to Ubuntu, my GRUB menu now lists:
2.5.31-19-generic
2.5.31-17-generic
2.5.31-16-generic
2.5.31-15-generic
2.5.31-14-generic
and (recovery mode) for each of the above, along with the mem test and WinXP.Is there any reason I need to list all these variants of Ubuntu? If not, can I simply edit them from the GRUB config file or must I do something else to actually uninstall them?
My installatio with 250mg root partition is nealy full after an updrade of linux-generic which has kept the old kernel and modules.
I can easily delete them or is the a way to instruct apt-get or dpkg to only keep the current version?