On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:13 +0530, Rony wrote: > pavithran s wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> On Saturday I have to remove Ubuntu 8.04 from 5 machines and install > >> Ubuntu 9.04 simply because upgrading Open Office is not possible in Linux. > >> > > > > #apt-get upgrade > > > > For better mnanagement of packages we have package management > > systems(apt) in GNU/Linux distributions . > > > > > > > 'apt-get upgrade' will only upgrade installed packages to their latest > version, within the scope of the existing distro. > > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will upgrade your distro to the latest version. > As mentioned in my earlier replies, I don't trust this process for long > term peace of mind and body.
+1 I can confirm that the system might often become slow and will provide some tough time because some times some dependencies don't get resolved. happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
