{"id":419,"date":"2012-01-30T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fbcs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=419"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:17:38","slug":"updating-from-ubuntu-9-04-to-xubuntu-11-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/updating-from-ubuntu-9-04-to-xubuntu-11-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating from Ubuntu 9.04 to Xubuntu 11.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a client&#39;s laptop, on which I&#39;d installed Ubuntu 9.04 a few years ago and it hadn&#39;t been updated since then.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to bring it up to date, and knew that the client wouldn&#39;t want the look-and-feel of it to change radically, so to avoid Unity and Gnome 3, I decided to install Xubuntu 11.10.<\/p>\n<p>I backed everything up, expecting to do a clean install of the new system.&nbsp; But the Xubuntu installer offered to upgrade directly from 9.04, so I tried it, and it worked!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The only minor glitch was that Thunderbird didn&#39;t find the old profile.&nbsp; I had to rename ~\/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~\/.thunderbird, and then that worked too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a client&#39;s laptop, on which I&#39;d installed Ubuntu 9.04 a few years ago and it hadn&#39;t been updated since then. I wanted to bring it up to date, and knew that the client wouldn&#39;t want the look-and-feel of it to change radically, so to avoid Unity and Gnome 3, I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,29,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}