Repositories

[bossa]

Which repos are ok ? dont know if I'm missing something but I haven't had an update in days now.

[Snowhog]

Re: Repositories

Wouldn't worry. But, to see if the repositories you have are all okay, just open a console and run:

sudo apt-get update

[bossa]

Re: Repositories

Hmm seems fine .Do you have the proposed/backports repos ticked ?

[Snowhog]

Re: Repositories

At work, so can't check. That, and I'm not on Karmic, so ...

But again, if you have made no changes to your active repositories, then don't worry.

[bossa]

Re: Repositories

Ok mate no worries thanks

[Teunis]

Re: Repositories

Hmm, the last several days I received updates about twice daily.

My (Dutch) /ets/apt/sources.list:

# 

# See [url]http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes[/url] for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic main restricted
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-updates main restricted
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic universe
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic universe
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-updates universe
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic multiverse
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic multiverse
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-updates multiverse
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-backports main restricted universe multiverse


## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb [url]http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu[/url] karmic partner

deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-security main restricted
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-security main restricted
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-security universe
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-security universe
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-security multiverse
deb-src [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-security multiverse
deb [url]http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] karmic-proposed restricted main multiverse universe

[bossa]

Re: Repositories

Hi Teunis
I suddenly had a mass of updates this morning ..over 200 ! Updated ,rebooted and then had a black screen tried to use a previus kernel and seems it could not find the kernel image :P Just re-installed and kept my home folder

[Teunis]

Re: Repositories

Not a nice experience but neither unexpected in a test version

I prefer to do the updates from the command line because it gives the best feedback in case of issues.
And the past two days twice some packages were not found on the Dutch server (.nl) but going to the main server fixed it.
Luckily aptitude will not do a partial update so chances of damaging the existing install because of missing parts are minimal.

Thankfully it's really easy and compared to some commercial grade OS very quick to do a new install, especially with a separate /home partition. 8)
(Providing you have a fast internet connection)