Edgy Repos

I recently downloaded and installed a daily build of Ubuntu Edgy Eft, so I can keep informed of its development, test and try out new features, and inform of any bugs encountered. Here is a few tips you may find useful in getting a basic install of Edgy started.

You need to ensure the correct repositories are listed in the /etc/apt/sources.list file. My install only included the security repos which I edited as below;

$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sourses.list

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe

Network Issues
I also encountered some network issues. The network configuration GUI interface, System>Administration>Networking, was deviod of any setting information, however the bash command ifconfig confirmed the ethernet port was setup.



$ ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:xx.xx.xx.15 Bcast:xx.xx.xx.255 Mask:255.xx.xx.xx
inet6 addr: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:167517 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:111091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:244521123 (233.1 MiB) TX bytes:8510005 (8.1 MiB)
Base address:0xe800 Memory:fbfe0000-fc000000

I checked the DNS addresses in /etc/resolv.conf

$ sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 208.67.222.222 # openDNS
nameserver 208.67.220.220 # openDNS


OpenOffice won't upgrade
Having resolved the above and running a dist-upgrade I encountered the following error;

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb: Conflicts: openoffice.org-core (>= 2.0.3) but 2.0.3-3ubuntu3 is to be installed
openoffice.org-l10n-en-za: Conflicts: openoffice.org-core (>= 2.0.3) but 2.0.3-3ubuntu3 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

The following forced removal and install of the openoffice.org and related packages was recommended on the Edgy forum here

$ sudo apt-get -f remove openoffice.org* oooqs-kde python-uno
$ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org python-uno

Next I performed the repos update and then dist-upgrade :)

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade