[aklug] Re: Ubuntu upgrade

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist_upgrade
Jim MacDonald
jim@macdonald.org

On Feb 8, 2009, at 2:46 PM, barsalou wrote:

> I had an old laptop that had Ubuntu edgy on it. I tried using the
> upgrade tool and that ended up failing.
>
> The jist of what needed to be done is :
>
> - change your sources to point to a current release
> - use aptitude (not apt-get) to do the dist-upgrade
>
> There probably is a way to get apt-get to work, but since I only had
> the one box, I couldn't test it.
>
> The upgrade isn't actually compeleted at this point..so this could be
> a complete failure.
>
> Since I wasn't using the box for anything terribly important, it
> didn't bother me if it wasn't going to work.
>
> If it was production, I would have built a seperate box and installed
> fresh, then moved my data over.
>
> Anyone have any distro upgrade experiences they care to share?
>
> Mike B.
>
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