You should definately upgrade to the latest version 12.04. For a start, it's a "long-term support" release and so will get updates for much longer than 11.10.<div><br></div><div>Also, there are many usability and technological improvements. Basically, it's the latest version, and it's the one you ought to be running. Upgrading is safe, and won't affect your dual-boot.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 May 2012 09:53, Louise Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hi Martin and Mike,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks very much! My new computer’s ubuntu is installing updates as I write. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Louise<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Mike Haber [mailto:<a href="mailto:Mike.Haber@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Mike.Haber@nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 22 May 2012 09:02<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hi Louise,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:#1f497d">The automatic proxy.pac file will just work for firefox. You also need a proxy for bash, and for other software.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">You can set the bash proxy in ~/.bashrc<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">EXPORT http_proxy=<a href="http://proxy.nottingham.ac.uk:8080" target="_blank">http://proxy.nottingham.ac.uk:8080</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">And also apt will need a proxy. See<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="color:#1f497d">ta<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">Mike Haber<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Louise Brown<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 May 2012 16:21<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">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" target="_blank">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 <span style="font-family:Wingdings">L</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
Louise<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Dr Louise Brown<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
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