Intrepid alpha and jigdo problem

July 29, 2008

I like to use jigdo for my kubuntu cd because my internet connection is limited. It is always better to use the limited bandwidth for something more useful, like browsing and blogging for example…:) With jigdo we can cut down the time to download the CD image. I’ve been using jigdo for the first alpha series of Intrepid and I always encountered problems. I always followed the official link to download the jidgo advertised in kubuntu announcement. Turn out that some of files on the jigdo template that made up the iso afterward had been removed from repositories. When I encountered the problem in Intrepid Alpha 1, I managed to get the missing files from this repo: cn.archive.ubuntu.com (china?) which eventually is slower than Indonesian mirror. Three days ago when I wanted to download Alpha 3, I stumbled the same problem, this time 15 packages were missing, I switched the repo again to cn.archive.ubuntu.com but only got 10 packages and still missing 5.
I decided not to waste more time and decided to download newer jigdo template which is from the daily images. In case you didn’t know you can get them at kubuntu daily images. So my advise is to use the jidgo template from here since it is in sync with the ever changing repo.
I did managed to download all the files with jigdo this time. I decided to fresh install my intrepid and it failed. Obviously there were some kde3 dependency problems that make it impossible to install adept, amarok, and others (and yes..that included kubuntu-desktop).
I don’t know whether the official cd image had this problem and haven’t check the launchpad on this issue. But if you had this problem and insist to procede with the install you can install a minimal sistem. After it finished installation of base system and you key in the username and password actually you are almost there. So when you were faced with the failed install screen (red background) you just skip the process and choose to proceed with the installation of grub. You will end up with a minimal system. But from there you can add up the packages. Since the dependency of kubuntu-desktop is borked, you can’t install it, instead try to install the packages one by one (xorg, konqueror, kdm, konsole, kdebase-workspace, etc).