On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 18:37 +1100, bill wrote: > Check out the Ubuntu Community Forums > > http://ubuntuforums.org/ > > In particular "Installation and Upgrades" Sticky: FAQ : How do > i upgrade to edgy ? >
This page seemed to work: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades Simply editing sources.list does NOT work. It seems to fail to install packages that are required by Edgy. > > > > I've decided to upgrade to Edgy. I've taken the following steps: > > > > Download ISO > > Burn to Disk > > Re-insert disk and get excited when Synaptic pops up automatically > > Use the Synaptic menu item to update sources.list with the new CDROM > > Stare blankly at the Synaptic screen, looking for something that says > > "dist-upgrade" or equivalent :-( > > Quit out of synaptic > > Manually edit /etc/apt/sources.list > > Verify CDROM line is present and correct > > # apt-get update > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > Wait while everything is downloaded from the internet again :-( > > > > In the good old days before Dapper (Woody, Warty, Hoary, Breezy), this > > was never a problem. What am I doing wrong? I have several more machines > > to do so I don't really want to go through this process too often. > > Please excuse me if I'm being remarkably stupid. > > > > David. > > > > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
