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Prepare the box before get Gutsy

Gutsy is already released now. It should be better to have original updated Feisty before upgrading. I mean no software from 3rd party repos. What I have are wine, fm2007[under wine] and compiz-fusion. First uninstall FM2007 leave me some menu entry that i need to manually delete it. I will post about this later. Afterthat i remove wine then compiz-fusion. Compiz-fusion set has a few packages installed and I can't remember the names what i do is ..
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ echo "sudo aptitude remove "`sudo dpkg -l |egrep compiz| awk '{print $2}'`|sudo bash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
compiz compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial
compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported compiz-gnome compiz-plugins compizconfig-settings-manager
libcompizconfig-backend-gconf libcompizconfig0 python-compizconfig
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 12 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 24.2MB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 113410 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing compiz ...
Removing compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported ...
Removing compiz-fusion-plugins-unofficial ...
Removing compiz-fusion-plugins-extra ...
Removing compiz-fusion-plugins-main ...
Removing compizconfig-settings-manager ...
Removing compiz-plugins ...
Removing compiz-core ...
Removing compiz-gnome ...
Removing libcompizconfig-backend-gconf ...
Removing python-compizconfig ...
Removing libcompizconfig0 ...
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$

Now update packages again 'sudo aptitude update' and 'sudo aptitude upgrade'. Last reinstall ubuntu-desktop that removed when compiz-fusion installed.
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
compiz compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-gtk compiz-plugins freeglut3 libglut3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
compiz compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-gtk compiz-plugins desktop-effects freeglut3 libglut3 ubuntu-desktop
0 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 692kB of archives. After unpacking 4145kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main compiz-core 1:0.3.6-1ubuntu13 [143kB]
Get:2 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main compiz-plugins 1:0.3.6-1ubuntu13 [269kB]
Get:3 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main compiz-gtk 1:0.3.6-1ubuntu13 [61.8kB]
Get:4 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main compiz-gnome 1:0.3.6-1ubuntu13 [35.0kB]
Get:5 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main compiz 1:0.3.6-1ubuntu13 [26.9kB]
Get:6 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main desktop-effects 0.7.1-0ubuntu4 [33.1kB]
Get:7 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main freeglut3 2.4.0-5 [84.0kB]
Get:8 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main libglut3 3.7-25 [21.5kB]
Get:9 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main ubuntu-desktop 1.43 [18.1kB]
. ...

Setting up libglut3 (3.7-25) ...
Setting up ubuntu-desktop (1.43) ...
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$

Now I'm ready to go for Gutsy. manual here

Comments

Saurav Shrestha said…
Is there a way to revert to the original (fresh) install of Fiesty/Gutsy without having to go through the Live CD install? If so could you please post it in a comment on my blog?

I dunno how to get notified if you post a reply after my comment (if there is such a thing).

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