Upgrading

[steve reilly]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>      My entire Linux experience has been installing the new version. I 
> have version 8.05 on my computer and for a learning experience I would 
> like to upgrade it to 8.10. How do you do this? I use sudo aptitiude 
> upgrade all the time to upgrade the current system. How do I get it to 
> upgrade to another version?
> 
> 73 Karl
> 
> ps: I checked all my books. They do not cover this
> 
> 

Ive always used sudo update-manager -d

the d switch has update-manager look for new distributions. their are 
other ways to do this, see here  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

PS.  8.04 can go directly to 10.04.  Im not aware of an 8.05.  unless 
maybe you meant 8.04.5?



steve