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.
> >
> >
> >   
> 

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