FGLRX Post install do's...

This is a good precaution to do because updating your packages can inadvertently cause you to download bad versions of the fglrx drivers.

$ sudo apt-mark hold fglrx fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-dev

Problem with MergeList on Ubuntu

Today, I got this strange error from my laptop on apt-get where the package lists could not be opened.  I found an article that basically says:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update

Should about remove the bad files and regenerate them.

Notice on Gutsy Gibbon Users on Apt-Get Repositories

This is a short note. As we all know, Ubuntu has dropped support for Gutsy Gibbon. As we all know, at that point, your Synaptic will also stop operating. Open your /etc/apt/sources.list and update the Ubuntu URLs to point to: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com.

Here's a sample:
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

This works for all other older, no longer supported releases of Ubuntu. Bear in mind though, if you want to upgrade distributions, you may have to change the url back to the URLs Ubuntu uses for their support distributions.

Just thought I'd just put that reminder out there.