Ubuntu MATE turned into Trisquel under my nose, anything I can do?
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Ubuntu MATE turned into Trisquel under my nose, anything I can do?
Hi there! This my first here after lurking for a bit and eventually having a very interesting issue.
I'm fairly new to the whole Linux thing. I've used it in the past for the briefest of moments, but just within the past month or so I switched over from Windows 7 to Ubuntu MATE.
Immediately after I started downloading software, especially games. And of course it was all stuff that I trust, like DOSBox, OpenRCT2, SCUMMVM, a few games from my GOG library, gPodder, etc etc.
Now I think it may have happened when I was trying to download either RubyRipper or eDuke32 (the last two programs I've attempted to download), but somewhere in there I must have used a command or something that switched Ubuntu to Trisquel.
I only just learned that my system made the switch, because when I was following the steps needed to download eDuke32 on Ubuntu, it came up with errors; when I tried an alternate download method- which required me to check my Ubuntu version- it came up saying that I had Trisquel instead.
I first went to the Ubuntu IRC and asked about it, they said I'm SOL and that I shouldn't "mix repositories" or something along those lines (which I don't understand).
I'd like to know:
What "Mixing Repositories" means and why I shouldn't do it
If there's there anything I can do to switch back to Unbuntu without a complete reinstall
and (If there isn't) Would you reccommend that I do a complete reinstall of Ubuntu MATE or just stick with Trisquel
"Mixing repositories" (commonly referred to as "repos") would mean having links to incompatible repos in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, say, some Triquel repos mixed in with the Ubuntu repos. In that case, a software update or package install could pull in incompatible packages, leading to serious issues.
What are the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file? You display them in a terminal with this command:
Thank you both for the help! Although Trisquel may be a good distro I think I'll reinstall Ubuntu when I get the chance, since AFAIK there's more programs compatible with that than most other distros.
Quote:
Originally Posted by frankbell
What are the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
Code:
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160420.1)]/ xenial main multiverse restricted universe
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
## 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
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-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 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates multiverse
## 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 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-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 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse
deb http://debian.drdteam.org/ stable multiverse
# deb-src http://debian.drdteam.org/ stable multiverse
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main
# deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main
# deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main
deb http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/ toutatis-updates main
# deb-src http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/ toutatis-updates main
You don't need to re-install, but you do need to avoid having repositories from two different distros. If they use different versions of a library, an update could leave you with a broken system.
Run the Synaptic package manager. First find what you got from Trisquel and un-install it. You can look for it somewhere else later. Then choose the option in that program to manage repositories, and remove the entry for Trisquel.
It might be a good idea to make sure that your distro is not listed as Trisquel. Have a look in
/etc/issue
/etc/lsb-release
One or the other should exist and if it says Trisquel, change it.
Run the Synaptic package manager. First find what you got from Trisquel and un-install it. You can look for it somewhere else later. Then choose the option in that program to manage repositories, and remove the entry for Trisquel.
Alright, I'll try that this weekend. Thanks!
Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidMcCann
It might be a good idea to make sure that your distro is not listed as Trisquel. Have a look in
/etc/issue
/etc/lsb-release
One or the other should exist and if it says Trisquel, change it.
By this do you mean that I should type in something else, or by "change it" do you mean "re-install it"? I checked this last night and both files said that I was using Trisquel ~v6.
By this do you mean that I should type in something else, or by "change it" do you mean "re-install it"? I checked this last night and both files said that I was using Trisquel ~v6.
I mean use the command "sudo gedit /etc/issue" (and similar for the other file name) to edit the files and replace "Trisquel ~v6" by "Ubuntu" and its version number. I'm not sure if those files are ever used by anything, or if they are just there so that anyone servicing the computer can see what's installed, but it's a probably good idea to have them saying the right thing.
Run the Synaptic package manager. First find what you got from Trisquel and un-install it. You can look for it somewhere else later. Then choose the option in that program to manage repositories, and remove the entry for Trisquel.
Okay so I was just able to get around to doing this. The first thing listed that was installed by the Trisquel repository was the "base-files" package which looked awfully important. Here's what it's saying that I got from Trisquel:
base-files
compton
libconfig8
libruby1.8
ruby1.8
(So clearly I did that when I was trying to install RubyRipper. Whoops.)
Should I still try to uninstall the packages or am I truly SOL?
Okay so I was just able to get around to doing this. The first thing listed that was installed by the Trisquel repository was the "base-files" package which looked awfully important. Here's what it's saying that I got from Trisquel:
base-files
compton
libconfig8
libruby1.8
ruby1.8
(So clearly I did that when I was trying to install RubyRipper. Whoops.)
Should I still try to uninstall the packages or am I truly SOL?
you are not SOL (i had to look that one up), but it would take some effort to undo.
not uninstalling the packages, but removing the wrong repositories in your sources lists, then updating/grading, hoping the packages get reverted to their original versions... i'm not 100% sure how the process would go, have you searched advice on that? your probably not the first, and probably someone made a nice blog article about how to attempt a fix?
you are not SOL (i had to look that one up), but it would take some effort to undo.
not uninstalling the packages, but removing the wrong repositories in your sources lists, then updating/grading, hoping the packages get reverted to their original versions... i'm not 100% sure how the process would go, have you searched advice on that? your probably not the first, and probably someone made a nice blog article about how to attempt a fix?
I did try looking it up a while back but I didn't get any results. I'll do a backup and attempt this.
Okay so I was just able to get around to doing this. The first thing listed that was installed by the Trisquel repository was the "base-files" package which looked awfully important. Here's what it's saying that I got from Trisquel:
base-files
compton
libconfig8
libruby1.8
ruby1.8
(So clearly I did that when I was trying to install RubyRipper. Whoops.)
Should I still try to uninstall the packages or am I truly SOL?
Oops! Those "base-files" are exactly the sort of thing you don't want replaced by the wrong distro. I think the other packages are safe. So, remove Trisquel from the repositories list and then re-install base-files so that you have the Ubuntu version.
Last edited by DavidMcCann; 08-20-2016 at 10:38 AM.
Reason: correction
Update: I started having many errors pop up when I booted the system, the system wouldn't update, and software wouldn't install in general. I backed everything up and reinstalled Ubuntu. Thank you to everyone who helped!
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Ubuntu MATE turned into Trisquel under my nose, anything I can do?
