Kubuntu breezy->apt-get dist-upgrade->dapper[worked4meBut...]

[Tez]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> Should I even consider doing an apt-get install update-manager for
> when I upgrade 6 months from now???? I heard in ubuntu-users that
> update-manager works better than apt-get... ! ??????????????
>
> I also heard that update-manager needs to have the gui up and
> running DURING the upgrade process?
>
> And I kind of liked the plan where all I had to do was replace each
> string of "breezy" with "dapper" in the sources list and then just:
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> {copy a few files from /boot to my real boot partition}
> {edit my real grub.conf}
> reboot & play with dapper...
>
> Especially since I could do this from a virtual console.
> # In my case I did the above between a clean reboot of my
> # breezy system and the first time I'd have run startx...
> # (I never really trusted leaving the gui up during major upgrades)
>
> Now like I said in the Subject: line, this worked for me, (this time).
> Apart from having to reinstall a few things like open office & mozilla
> and redo some kde preferences, it went really well. In fact about the
> only really annoying thing was having to look back in my pine
> saved-message folder for the clue that told me how to use:
> update-rc.d -f kdm remove
> to dump the annoying gui-login prompt, and let me start at runlevel 3.
>
> Having been used to burning a new installation cd to upgrade
> fedora & etc... I found the apt-get method almost painless.
>
> But since this is the first time I did it this way, I don't know if
> that's the way it usually works, or if I simply got lucky this time.
>
> So is there any real reason to try update-manager next time?
> Would it be likely to work better on my kubuntu system than apt-get?
> Does it even have a text mode user interface yet???
As you probably know update-manager (as all package management GUIs) is
just a front-end to apt anyway.
Update Manager just checks in for a new version of (K)ubuntu, then asks
if you want to upgrade, that's the only difference.
Update manager then changes your source list for you, dose a apt-get
update then an apt-get dist-upgrade, it's just automated is all.

When I upgraded to Dapper, I just went in to a VT, stopped some services
(to free up some mem so it would run quicker) and used nano to change my
source.lst, ran script to log output, then the usual apt-get .....(then
went and made a sandwich, watched some tv... :-p)

Tez