Upgrading to Dapper

June 2, 2006 General No Comments

I’ve been running on Ubuntu Dapper for quite a long time now, and my mom has been using the previous version, the Breezy Badger. So I figured since the official 6.06 release is final, I’d upgrade her machine to Dapper.

I ran into a little bit of a hiccup, and it seems that somewhere along the way her Python 2.4 install had been corrupted. Since stuff like that doesn’t usually “just happen” I filed a bug report on Ubuntu’s Launchpad. It was fixable without too much trouble, by just manually installing the latest python24 package from Dapper. After that the upgrade finished without a problem.

Nobody else has run into this issue that I’m aware of, which is very peculiar. I got a response from one of the Ubuntu hackers trying to get some more information, but by that time I had already forced the upgrade of python24 so it was too late.

Dapper is released!

June 1, 2006 General No Comments

Exciting news today, Ubuntu has unleashed the Dapper Drake!

Hacking

June 1, 2006 hacking No Comments

I’ve been getting back into Gnome related technologies recently, for variousreasons. I started looking into Gnome’s accessibility project, like ATK and atk-spi. It’s pretty cool, I think. I had long ago started to work on a speech recognition interface for Gnome using CMU Sphinx and a Bonobo interface. It never got further than occasionally being able to recognize when I say “hello” and display a popup “Hello, world!” dialog. But it was cool.