Can not upgrade from 2.5.4 to 2.6

Hi,
Your help would be most appreciated.

I failed to update from 2.5.4 to 2.6
I follow this to the dot.
after entering the debline deb linuxcnc.org lucid base 2.6
Reload after I close the Software Source window
an error pop-up saying
The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted... etc etc
AND
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored or old ones used instead.

Thinking it will still be ok, I proceed to the Synaptic Package Manager, quick search [linuxcnc] and click the Reload button.
and it hit me with another error box.
W: Failed to fetch linuxcnc.org/dists/lucid/release Unable to finf expected entry file based/binary-i386/ packages in Meta-index file (malformed Released file?)
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored or old ones used instead.

This is a standalone Atom D2500 board 2GB RAM, 8GB SSD with a touch screen monitor. lucid 10.04 OS, Linuxcnc2.5.4.
It took me many sleepless nights to setup the 3G broadband USB dongle and the touch screen. I know wiping the hard disk and install from scratch is the easy way out, I hope not to go through the dongle & touchscreen installation again....
Thanks in advance.

Ken

I don't think those paths are quite right, but have nothing to check on right now.

There is certainly no need to re-install

The below will download the deb, uninstall the old and install the new
If you have linuxcnc-dev installed you will need to do the same with that too.


regards

Hi ArcEye,
Thanks for the quick response.
Ran this on the terminal
wget -c linuxcnc.org/dists/lucid/2.6/binary-i386...uxcnc_2.6.7_i386.deb
returns ERROR 404

So this path is no good.

The path is fine, I just downloaded the deb.

Try just clicking on the link to the deb in my last post, it just downloaded when i did it

regards

I've downloaded the deb file. Thanks
Just to be sure, where/which directory should I place it?

It does not really matter, you just have to change directory to wherever you downloaded it, before you try installing it.

If you want to keep it, you could put it in /var/cache/apt/archives which is where apt-get would put it if you installed that way

regards

Got it!
Downloaded the file,
sudo apt-get remove linxcnc

then double=click on the downloaded file, and click on the install button.

Thousand thanks.