Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 - upgrade of svn to 1.5 or 1.6

2009-04-15 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
Werner F. Bruhin wrote: > Philip Stubbs wrote: >> 2009/4/15 Werner F. Bruhin : >>> I just upgraded my Ubuntu machine which I mainly use for my svn >>> repository. Reason to upgrade was to get of svn 1.4.3 to something more >>> recent, i.e. 1.5.x or even better 1.6.1. Just for the archive. After g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 - upgrade of svn to 1.5 or 1.6

2009-04-15 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
Philip Stubbs wrote: > 2009/4/15 Werner F. Bruhin : >> I just upgraded my Ubuntu machine which I mainly use for my svn >> repository. Reason to upgrade was to get of svn 1.4.3 to something more >> recent, i.e. 1.5.x or even better 1.6.1. >> >> Was searching around but have not found instructions o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 - upgrade of svn to 1.5 or 1.6

2009-04-15 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/4/15 Werner F. Bruhin : > I just upgraded my Ubuntu machine which I mainly use for my svn > repository.  Reason to upgrade was to get of svn 1.4.3 to something more > recent, i.e. 1.5.x or even better 1.6.1. > > Was searching around but have not found instructions on how to get svn > upgraded

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 - upgrade of svn to 1.5 or 1.6

2009-04-15 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
I just upgraded my Ubuntu machine which I mainly use for my svn repository. Reason to upgrade was to get of svn 1.4.3 to something more recent, i.e. 1.5.x or even better 1.6.1. Was searching around but have not found instructions on how to get svn upgraded - note that I am still pretty new to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi, I do dual boot the machine.. I had problems with the internal wireless, some Broadcom chip, I could never make it connect to a network reliably and some it refused to connect properly at all. The dongle and wireless works perfectly in XP, although if I leave the dongle in while booting up the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Holloway
Hi Toby > wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:2f:be:80:69 > inet addr:192.168.0.42 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Looks fine > Kernel IP routing table Looks fine > From Jonah.local (192.168.0.42) icmp_seq=46 Destination Host Unreachable what happens if you ping 192.16

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi Michael, This the out put of ifconfig and route. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:25:18:ea:d3 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Holloway
You say that the DNS stopped working? It doesn't seem likely. Can you ping your router via the IP address? `ping 192.168.0.1` (or whatever) should work regardless of DNS, while `ping my.router.com` (whatever your routers dns name is) relies on DNS. `ping www.google.com ` will resolve the IP addr

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi, I have used this dongle before and it worked, can't remember the specifics. But, now the network connects and is authenticated I use WPA, yet after a very brief second or two when traffic can be sent and received ( Learned by setting ping going before and during connection to the wireless netw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Beard
John wrote: > Hi Rob, I contacted VIA, who told me they have written an upgrade to > their via cards that allows compiz to function. Unfortunately, I did try > to install it, but as I'm only a beginner I couldnt get it to work but > they assured me that it does work. I dont know of any body else

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-05 Thread John
Hi Rob, I contacted VIA, who told me they have written an upgrade to their via cards that allows compiz to function. Unfortunately, I did try to install it, but as I'm only a beginner I couldnt get it to work but they assured me that it does work. I dont know of any body else who has been found

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-04 Thread Rob Beard
John wrote: > Its a via, I know via have an upgrade to their cards, but I couldnt get > it to work, so wasnt able to upgrade. :( Sounds like what I experienced. I found that using the 'Safe' Video Mode (vesa driver) worked okay albeit slow. I found this on the Ubuntu forums, not sure if it'll

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-04 Thread John
Its a via, I know via have an upgrade to their cards, but I couldnt get it to work, so wasnt able to upgrade. :( John Rob Beard wrote: John wrote: Hi, sorry to take so long to answer, been a bit busy. Its not the first time I have installed Ubuntu. I have installed 8.04 on a Wi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-04 Thread Neil Greenwood
2008/11/3 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > Its an upgrade. How can I go back to > 8.04, is it easy? > Hi John, You can downgrade the packages to return to 8.04, but it's much easier (and more reliable - what if you miss a package?) to re-install. Hope that helps. Cofion/Regards, Neil. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-04 Thread Rob Beard
John wrote: > Hi, sorry to take so long to answer, been a bit busy. > > Its not the first time I have installed Ubuntu. I have installed 8.04 on > a Windows XP machine, for dual boot. It isnt a recognised company > hardware, its made by a company called Hi-Grade. As far as doing a > Ctrl+Alt+1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread John
Hi, sorry to take so long to answer, been a bit busy. Its not the first time I have installed Ubuntu. I have installed 8.04 on a Windows XP machine, for dual boot. It isnt a recognised company hardware, its made by a company called Hi-Grade. As far as doing a Ctrl+Alt+1 I cant do that because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread Dean Sas
Chris Coulson wrote: > To enable Apport, edit /etc/default/apport and change "enabled=0" to > "enabled=1". Apport should then generate a crash report next time the > application crashes, which you will find in /var/crash. I think you need to also start apport by running "sudo /etc/init.d/apport st

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/11/3 Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/11/3 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, thank you for your message. I have posted about 3 or 4 things to > > Launchpad, and none of them have been answered, I keep getting messages > > saying that they have been closed due to inactivity, so you will ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/3 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, thank you for your message. I have posted about 3 or 4 things to > Launchpad, and none of them have been answered, I keep getting messages > saying that they have been closed due to inactivity, so you will have to > excuse my reluctance to post there. Its a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
Hello John, They should only have been closed, if a triager asked you a question which you didn't reply to. Can you link me to the reports in question? Johnathon John wrote: > Hi, thank you for your message. I have posted about 3 or 4 things to > Launchpad, > and none of them have been answere

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread John
Hi, thank you for your message. I have posted about 3 or 4 things to Launchpad, and none of them have been answered, I keep getting messages saying that they have been closed due to inactivity, so you will have to excuse my reluctance to post there. Its an upgrade. How can I go back to 8.04, is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 2 Nov 2008 at 19:53, John wrote: > > I posted earlier this afternoon about a problem, but not sure if it got > to you, so I will post it again, hopefully it will. Its the first time > I've posted on here. > > I tried to install 8.10 on my laptop but when the desktop tried to open, > it sti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread John
I posted earlier this afternoon about a problem, but not sure if it got to you, so I will post it again, hopefully it will. Its the first time I've posted on here. I tried to install 8.10 on my laptop but when the desktop tried to open, it sticks, and it wont start. I wondered if it was a probl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:19 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > One most peculiar fault which I have not been able to correct is with >> > Evolution Mail. I cannot send or receive mail because the button to >> > send/receive is greyed out. Any suggestions would be gratefully >> > received.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread norman
> > One most peculiar fault which I have not been able to correct is with > > Evolution Mail. I cannot send or receive mail because the button to > > send/receive is greyed out. Any suggestions would be gratefully > > received. Otherwise, Ubuntu does it again. > > I did a search for 'evolution ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:48 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having read of some of the woes stemming from the upgrade I thought I > had better take the plunge and see what happens. So, this morning I did > the necessary to my laptop, and all went like a charm. I am now having a > rest from

[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread norman
Having read of some of the woes stemming from the upgrade I thought I had better take the plunge and see what happens. So, this morning I did the necessary to my laptop, and all went like a charm. I am now having a rest from trying out various applications that I would expect to use and, so far, mo