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Hi Louse,<BR>
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I am not technical like most of the others, but I did have 11.10 installed (64bit) and just did the upgrade through the updater without any trouble, although mine isn't a dual boot.<BR>
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I think 12.04 is an improvement of 11.10, but there is a nice article here that you might like to take a look at, it also gives you a clue about how to use some features:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/software/1291966/ubuntu-12-04">http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/software/1291966/ubuntu-12-04</A><BR>
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Hope that helps<BR>
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Keith<BR>
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On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:53 +0100, Louise Brown wrote:
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Hi Martin and Mike,<BR>
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Thanks very much! My new computer’s ubuntu is installing updates as I write. <BR>
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One more question – it also tells me that a new release 12.04 LTS is available. Is it preferable to upgrade? If I hit the upgrade button will it just sort itself out? Will this be ok on my dual boot machine? If the upgrade seems worth doing then I guess it’s maybe worth going for it before I start transferring files onto the new computer. Also I suppose I may as well get used to the new version as the 11.10 currently installed. Any thoughts/advice?<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Louise<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Mike Haber [mailto:Mike.Haber@nottingham.ac.uk] <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> 22 May 2012 09:02<BR>
<B>To:</B> Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> RE: Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni<BR>
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Hi Louise,<BR>
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The automatic proxy.pac file will just work for firefox. You also need a proxy for bash, and for other software.<BR>
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You can set the bash proxy in ~/.bashrc<BR>
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EXPORT http_proxy=http://proxy.nottingham.ac.uk:8080<BR>
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And also apt will need a proxy. See<BR>
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<A HREF="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy</A><BR>
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ta<BR>
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Mike Haber<BR>
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<B>From:</B> nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Louise Brown<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> 21 May 2012 16:21<BR>
<B>To:</B> nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni<BR>
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Hi,<BR>
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I’m a fairly intermittent linux user so apologies if my question has an obvious answer! I’ve just had a new dual-boot computer with Ubuntu 11.10 installed. I’m unable to download any software or updates. At first I couldn’t get any websites to load in Firefox but have now set it to auto-detect proxy settings and that’s now working fine. Is the download problem also likely to be a proxy settings issue? I did a search and found a (quite old) blog which said to set the proxy to automatic with the URL set to <A HREF="http://wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk/proxy.pac">http://wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk/proxy.pac</A> but that doesn’t seem to make a difference. Any help with this would be much appreciated – IT support logged my call nearly a week ago and I’ve heard nothing from them since L<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Louise<BR>
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