-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
I use the MATE interface, a Gnome2 fork. You can install it from Ubuntu 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr" repositories now: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mate-desktop Install it from the commandline with 'apt-get install mate-desktop' I'd also install the packages 'mate-desktop-environment' and 'mate-desktop-environment-extras', but they seem to be available only in 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn": http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mate-desktop-environment-extras Instead of upgrading from 14.04LTS to 14.10 to get the '-environment-extras' you may want to add the MATE repositories instead. That'll let you install the '-environment-extras' package, and probably provides you with a more current MATE core as well. There's good instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar - --Bob. Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-669-0388 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/ http://sn.jonkman.ca/bobjonkman/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO.
OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
Chris
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