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Answer: How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version? #solution #fix #computers

Answer: How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version? #solution #fix #computers

How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version?

I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.

How can I do that? Is that even possible?

Answer [by 8128]: How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version?

To put it simply: no there’s not. Sorry… (These are the dangers of upgrading to testing releases!)

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How to: How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? #it #fix #solution

How to: How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? #it #fix #solution

How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release?

Recently I have installed an older version of Ubuntu on my old machine. When ever I am trying to install any software it is giving error

sudo -i apt-get install vlc

The error being flagged is under below.

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package vlc

Answer…

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Answer: What is the point of staging? #programming #development #answer

Answer: What is the point of staging? #programming #development #answer

What is the point of staging?

I thought I’d worked this out, but after reading Continuous Delivery (excellent book) I’m a little confused. They talk about having servers for:

development

various forms of automated tests

user acceptance testing (UAT) – ie sitting down with the client and demonstrating it to them, and letting them do exploratory testing. The in-house testers could also use this…

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How to: Best practices for copying files with Maven

How to: Best practices for copying files with Maven

Best practices for copying files with Maven

I have config files and various documents that I want to copy from the dev environment to the dev-server directory using Maven2. Strangely, Maven does not seem strong at this task.

Some of the options:

Simple use a copy task in Maven

<copy file="src/main/resources/config.properties" tofile="${project.server.config}/config.properties"/>

Use the Ant…

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