I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 from a CD in a book I just bought, but it, of course, is out of date. There should be an executable or an archive that I can pull to my hard drive, and open with the Archive Manager or the Software Updater.
Please don't just give me another link! I've been Googling and linking all day.
I have gone to the upgrade page, and a file (ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso) downloads, but I can't do anything with it. It's not an executable, and the archive manager looks, but doesn't install or run anything from it.
Please, what are the STEPS? as in: 1. download THIS from HERE 2. Put it in THIS-PLACE (under Home, or '/Root' or where??) 3. open it with UBUNTU-TOOL-A
Rant follows here: My ultimate goal is just to get the Eclipse Java compiler running. To install it in that other operating system, I just downloaded and ran the install for the JDK and then downloaded the Eclipse zip file, extracted it, and BOOM, I was programming in Java.
I downloaded Eclipse for Ububtu, and it needs the JRE or JDK. I download the JDK, and it needs the JRE. I search for the JRE for Ubuntu, and the link takes me to the same page for the JDK.
Why is it so convoluted just to get what amounts to a software program to run here?
