Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

[Tom H]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, ms <devicerandom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/04/10 19:59, Nikolai K. Bochev wrote:
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
>
> Wait, that's a guide to upgrade from 9.10. I have 10.04 release candidate.
>
> the Update manager indeed gives me several packages to update. Is this
> the correct route from a RC to a full release too? (probably yes, but...)
>
> Also -isn't upgrading from synaptic / apt-get the same, and if not, why
> (that is: what does the update manager do under the hood?)

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade

or

aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade or aptitude full-upgrade

or

GUI

apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade (or aptitude safe-upgrade and
aptitude full-upgrade) might have the same effect.

>From the man pages:

safe-upgrade
           Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version. Installed
           packages will not be removed unless they are unused (see the
           section “Managing Automatically Installed Packages” in the aptitude
           reference manual). Packages which are not currently installed may
           be installed to resolve dependencies unless the --no-new-installs
           command-line option is supplied.

           It is sometimes necessary to remove one package in order to upgrade
           another; this command is not able to upgrade packages in such
           situations. Use the full-upgrade command to upgrade as many
           packages as possible.

upgrade
           upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
           currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
           /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new
           versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
           circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages
           not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
           currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
           changing the install status of another package will be left at
           their current version. An update must be performed first so that
           apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.