[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[Keith Palmer]

Hi Louse,

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.

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:

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/software/1291966/ubuntu-12-04

Hope that helps

Keith

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:53 +0100, Louise Brown wrote:
> Hi Martin and Mike,
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks very much!  My new computer’s ubuntu is installing updates as I
> write.  
> 
>  
> 
> 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?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Louise
> 
>  
> 
> 
> From: Mike Haber [mailto:Mike.Haber at nottingham.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 22 May 2012 09:02
> To: Louise.Brown at nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Louise,
> 
> The automatic proxy.pac file will just work for firefox. You also need
> a proxy for bash, and for other software.
> 
> You can set the bash proxy in ~/.bashrc
> 
> EXPORT http_proxy=http://proxy.nottingham.ac.uk:8080
> 
>  
> 
> And also apt will need a proxy.  See
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> ta
> 
> Mike Haber
> 
>  
> 
> 
> From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Louise
> Brown
> Sent: 21 May 2012 16:21
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> 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
> http://wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk/proxy.pac 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
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Louise
> 
>  
> 
> Dr Louise Brown
> 
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