Upgrading

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/02/2010 01:03 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  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?
>>      
> At the cli and if you were going from 9.10 to 10.04:
> $ sudo aptitude update
> $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
> $ sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop
> but I think that "do-release-upgrade" (and its GUI equivalent) will
> upgrade you to the latest version not from one old (albeit an LTS one)
> to another old version.
>
> You should be able to upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 with the above
> though. I would not feel comfortable doing so on a desktop though; on
> a server, possibly, although I have spent the weekend upgrading some
> servers from 8.04 and 9.04 to 10.04 by rebuilding the OS from scratch.
>
> You could upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 with aptitude too but it is not a
> one-step process.
>
>    
         It appears I have seen the opportunity to upgrade to 10.04 
while using the update manager. I will try that and see what happens.



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