Journey to Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Finally I have installed Kubuntu Feisty Fawn! But I have to admit that the journey was not exactly smooth. Initially, as I do not have a really reliable connection, I have downloaded the Alternate CD and tried to execute the cdromupgrade script. However, I found that it needs gksu which it not installed. Trying to cheat it. I changed that to kdesu and it successfully launched the Distribution Upgrade tool, but quickly failed due to a bug I discovered in DistUpgradeViewKDE.py and I submitted a bug report . Next, I tried a new attempt using the new Kubuntu Distribution upgrade tool as described here . But it failed during the "Modifying Software Channels" stage due to some gzip error. After some googling, I found that I could modify the /etc/apt/source.list to point to mirrors instead of the official source at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/. To my disappointment, there are no mirrors in Malaysia. So I looked for mirrors in Asia. As I thought Thailand would be the closest nei...