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

Anthony David adavid at adavid.com.au
Wed May 10 21:47:13 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:57:02PM +0200, Guido Heumann wrote:
> OOzy Pal schrieb:
> > Which way is better to upgrade:
> > 
> > gksudo "update-manager -d"
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list
> > 
> > and change all references from breezy to dapper
> > 
> > then:
> > 
> > $ sudo aptitude update
> > 
> > $ sudo aptitude dist-up
> 
> The recommended way for upgrading to dapper is described here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades
> 
> It recommends gksudo "update-manager -d"
> 
> I recently learned that the method of changing sources.list and using
> aptitude for dist-upgrade is no longer recommended. More info on this
> directly from mdz in the sub-thread starting here:
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-April/075376.html

Its only failing is that it needs to run under X.

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