Today's the Day

[Little Brown Fox]

Today is when I was told the latest version of my OS releases. i dunno whether it has or not, though, and I haven't gotten any software update prompts yet (but I only just got on so).

So. You guys. How do I do the thing?

(TetPen Diehard I'm lookin' at you)

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TrustyUpgrades/Kubuntu/12.04LTS

I'll have to wait for another month or two before Linux Mint pushes their upgrade though the pipeline.
Then I'll also probably buy myself a new HD. Linux Mint doesn't support an inline upgrade, so I'll end up backing up my home directory, and then do a fresh install and relink everything together. Won't be the first time I've done that.

[Little Brown Fox]

I... dunno what any of that means. Is that your OS?

I'm just hoping that this will solve the tablet issue once and for all, and I can finally use it like it was meant to be. I'm technically not even supposed to be on today, but I was allowed on because of this- I guess, anyway. (I wasn't allowed on yesterday, either- that may have been better for me, though. Tumblr has been slowly but surely becoming a bit of a toxic place to be, partly because of a user that I know hangs around here rather prominently, as well- but whose name I won't mention, because that has nothing to do with here.)

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Yes, I'm running Linux Mint on my computer. It's a derivate of Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and uses the same program repositories.

Check with Diehard67 for any thing to watch out for doing the upgrade, good luck with it and with your tablet.

[Little Brown Fox]

I think I'm running it right now- I may have done something wrong, though; there is always that possibility. Let's just hope it doesn't destroy everything that I have on here.

[diehard67]

just run muon-updater in your terminal and it will tell you that there is a new version of kubuntu and offer to upgrade you, then it is just fallow the prompts, most of witch are just for information.

I am upgrading right now.

[Little Brown Fox]

Uh, I'm not sure if I did the same thing. I followed the directions from that link (I'm not sure how smooth things are going though)...

It's taking a long time, tho...

[diehard67]

it will take a while, if you don't see any dialogs that say error then your fine

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this is the upgrade screen on mine so far, I clicked on the show terminal button, cos I like to see what is going on.

it took about half an hour to download all the packages, I have 100 Mb/s internet

installing is gonna take longer but not too bad.

[Little Brown Fox]

I think it's installed. I had to replace a customized doohicky, but I don't know what it was, so I hope I didn't ruin anything on accident...

Also, I kept some obsolete stuff because I didn't feel like waiting for the thing to remove them all in order to download the OS.

It still insists that my tablet is not connected, though. What should I do?

[diehard67]

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-wacom

reboot the computer and try the tablet at the login screen just incase x freaks out

if it works then that is it go have fun.

if not then
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-input-wacom
reboot again and atleast you can use it as a mouse.