Status of Dapper?

[Daniel Carrera]

Antony Gelberg wrote:
>> Upgrading 
>> Ubuntu is not difficult, but it does require you to be physically at 
>> the computer.
> 
> It doesn't.  I understand your fear, but your last sentence is simply 
> not true.  I have dist-upgraded many Debian and Ubuntu machines via ssh, 
> and problems have been negligible.

I *always* hit a snag. At a minimum I have to reconfigure X and reboot a 
couple of times. Typically some packages break and I have to remove, 
reinstall or install with the -f flag. That doesn't happen with many 
packages, but it always happens with a few.

It is always something that I can fix, but it still takes me at least a 
couple of hours after dist-upgrade was supposed to be done. In my 
experience, these problems are far from neglibible. I would call them 
"manageable by an experienced user". I wouldn't expect an inexperienced 
but technically inclined user to manage it.

I know that 'apt-get dist-upgrade' should "just work" but it doesn't. 
I've done this a few times (about 5) and it never once "just worked".

Maybe there's something I'm doing consistently wrong?

Best,
Daniel.
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