problem with upgrade to edgy ubuntu

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:16:58 -0700 (PDT), Ruihua Fang 
  <aprilnyus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, I inherited a computer with Ubuntu 5.10.  I had
> tried to install gcc and had a series dependency
> problems.  Then I decided to upgrade it to version
> 6.10.
>   The following is what I had when I tried to upgrade:
>
> 1. sudo sed -e 's/\sdapper/ edgy/g' -i
> /etc/apt/source.list
>
> 2. sudo apt-get update
>    it complained could not resolve
> 'my.favorite.cran.mirror'
>
> 3. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> 4. sudo apt0get -f -install
>    It said that the following packages will be
> removed, which are a lot of packages. 
>   Then it said the following essential packages will
> be removed.  This should NOT be donw unless you know
> exactly what you are doing!
>   I did not continue after this.
>   There is no data I need to save on this computer. 
> Is it possible that I could just do a fresh install of
> Ubuntu 6.10 or do I need to uninstall the old version
> first?  Thanks for your help!
>
To upgrade a 5.10 system you can either upgrade to 6.06 first and then 
6.10, or do a fresh install.


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