Upgrading

[David M. Carney]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 21:41 +0000, baza wrote:
>I read a posting today that made me a bit gloomy. A person posted that a 
>fresh install of Hoary gives you a better system than going from warty 
>using apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
>I thought one of the advantages of Debian is you can upgrade without 
>having to re-install? It's a bit of a sod if I have to do that because 
>I've got things running as I want, nice Java, flash, DVD, lots of cool 
>stuff like Nvu. If I had to reinstall it would be pain. Not to mention 
>the last time I did that I killed Windows (which I use for games).
>
>Baza
>

hmmmm....

I had some problems that I caused myself by adding a BUNCH of non-Ubuntu
source packages and libraries and such.

If you haven't abused your Warty system like I had, then you should be
able to do an upgrade without reinstalling.

Best of luck!

David

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