Upgrading

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:20 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:01 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>> 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
>>
>> For the who-knows-what-time, "-d" upgrades you to the latest
>> development release!
>
> point taken. correction..  use -c for a release upgrade.

I hope that I did not sound too harsh... But it is worrying that so
many people want to use the "-d" (or even "--devel-release"!).
Thankfully, I suspect that if you use it now, nothing will happen
because I don't think that the first alpha of MM (I have forgotten
what the letters stand for), but in a week/month/whatever you would
skip 10.04 with that command (unless there is some kind of failsafe
warning before the upgrade is run).

"-c" is to check whether an upgrade is available.