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Gutsy Gibbon Upgrades

I've upgraded all four of my machines (two home machines and two work machines) from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon. Two were pretty simple, the other two were tricky. One still doesn't have sound, which is really frustrating. I'm going to write up the gory details for my own benefit. It'll probably be boring for you. Sorry, blogs are like that ;-) My laptop was the easiest. I don't keep anything on its hard drive. It's pretty much used as a thin client, so I could just about do a fresh install every time. I don't like to have to reconfigure stuff from scratch though, so I did the update-manager upgrade. It was quick, under two hours, and everything seems to be working fine. Oh, except my anti-aliased fonts on emacs. Those went away for some reason. That happened on all the machines. I probably just need to add back in the right repository for that. The kids' machine at home had a small hiccup. It's an older celery-on machine and I'