Is it wise to upgrade to Dapper (Kubuntu) now?

[Clive Menzies]

On (10/05/06 09:14), Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> >> Is it wise to upgrade to Dapper (Kubuntu) now or should I wait until a
> >> stable version is released and some time is passed for the bugs to be
> >> fixed?
> >
> > That depends.  Are you willing to risk things occasionally being broken
> > for the next month or so?  If not, it might be better to go with the
> > stable release.  Me, I just installed Breezy onto the new hard drive of
> > my primary laptop.  Reason:  I need stability more than anything else,
> > and there's not really anything on my Thinkpad X31 that I use that
> > *doesn't* work right.
> 
> I know this is probably covered somewhere but my quick search can't find
> it :- How can I easily upgrade from a new install of 5.10 to Dapper Drake?
> Can someone do me a favor and point me in the right direction.

edit your /etc/apt/sources.list

and change all references from breezy to dapper

then:

$ sudo aptitude update

$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

and away you go .... (there may be a specific ubuntu prescribed method
but I've always done it this <debian> way)

Regards

Clive


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