Okay, I'm running UUGE, the update manager has the upgrade option in it, I click the Upgrade button, I give the root password, it starts the distro upgrade window, fetches a number of things, and then pops up an error window with this message:

Failed to fetch http://uu.enarel.eu/dists/feisty/all...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Anyone know what this means? or how to fix it? If push comes to shove, I assume I could download 7.10 and do an upgrade via CD, right?

Also, I have MPlayer installed, but if I try and play a movie, an error pops up and says:

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

EDIT: Scratch the MPlayer problem, fiddled with the video settings in the preferences and got it working.


Tib

The 404 error usually means that the mirror you are using is not available. Try setting up apt to use a different mirrror.

And make sure apt-get update is really run before you start the upgrade (so apt is aware of the latest packages). It should be, though.

Even though the graphical tool (or command-line if you prefer) can nowadays upgrade your system, and it's said to work without major problems, I would still download or order the setup disc and do a clean install, formatting root partition. If you have a separate /home partition for your things it isn't a problem, or if you do, you'll need an external device to do backups on. But it's a lot cleaner method, and if you can get the disc downloaded and written in a decent time, can be faster too. The main thing is, it works (if your network connection dies in the middle of a network upgrade, you'll have to do some cleaning before continuing!), and after that you'll have a clean system to continue with.

@Red - How do I configure APT to use a different mirror?

@B0uncer - That is basically what I did, a fresh install, but it was of UUGE v1.4, which has Ubuntu 7.04. I would've used a newer version, but I can't seem to find a working torrent, and I barely got v1.4, so I just installed it, upgraded the Gamers Edition part of it, and then went to upgrade the Ubuntu part of it, which then ran me into the error. I'd download Ubuntu 7.10 and do a fresh install, but UUGE has so much software pre-installed and working, that it'd take me a year or so to get it all working myself (as I'm a newbie). If I download the disk for 7.10, will it let me do the upgrade from the disk, the same way the update software would?
Thanks!


Tib

edit /etc/apt/sources.list. Add your favourite mirror using the options already listed in the file.

Thanks! .

Now I just have to ask....what's a mirror I can put in there, that will have 7.10 in it, that the upgrade manager can connect to and upgrade my distro with? .


Tib