"dist-upgrade" includes the functionality of "upgrade", so no need to do both.
Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Aere Greenway <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/13/2013 12:26 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: >> >> Now, please, follow these steps: >> >> 1- Make sure your SWAP is 1GB at least. >> 2- From LXTerminal or whatever Terminal you are using, please run: >> >> sudo apt-get clean >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get upgrade >> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade >> sudo apt-get autoremove >> sudo apt-get autoclean > > Ali, and all: > > Knowing that apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade to a new level, I tried > much of the procedure listed above on my UbuntuStudio 12.04 system. > > When I installed Lubuntu 13.04 on that system, I increased the size of the > swap partition to 992 megabytes, which is not quite the 1GB you indicated > above. But watching the panel indicators (and the "top" command-display) > while updating/upgrading, it did not show any swap usage at all. > > So anyway, I did the following terminal commands (not having a printed > version of the above): > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > sudo apt-get autoclean > > This time, it went all the way to the end, with me being able to observe > what happened. > > I think what threw me before, was that it (on the apt-get upgrade step) > ended on the "update initramfs" step (not on mkinitramfs, as I was > thinking). > > So it works fine on UbuntuStudio 12.04 on that machine, a system which > exhibited similar symptoms to what I reported for Lubuntu 12.10. > > The next time updates become available for Lubuntu 12.10, I will try that > procedure, and report the results. > > That machine actually runs both Qsynth and the Java Sound Synthesizer quite > well, so it will be good if this new upgrade procedure works out. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
