Peter Silva wrote: > you can't use dist-upgrade with ubuntu, no clue why, > the way to do it is: > > sudo do-release-upgrade > > (add a '-d' when it isn't a stable release yet.) > > It does some under the covers stuff that works better. > > Whenever I used apt-get dist-upgrade, I always needed > to iterate (doing it over and over, for it to work on ubuntu. > on Debian, it used to work fine...) dist-upgrade works (or should) as on debian, it does not update your distribution to newest (ie etch to lenny), it does a complete upgrade to newest packages of that version. You need to manually change your apt source to do distribution upgrades (I guess actually dist-upgrade is badly named hehe), and this is basically what the ubuntu upgrade tool does, then it runs the dist-upgrade.
IMO it is always better to do a clean install, and even to wipe your home dir. I usually move my /home/user to /home/user.old && mkdir /home/user, chown user:user /home/user -R and then copy over ssh keys and other docs I want. No legacy settings or cruft, nice shiny new home. I had some sound issues with beta, but since release and clean install all is perfect. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
