If you have an LTS to LTS upgrade actually work, please report back and
let us know. I have been adminning about 150 Ubuntu boxen at work here
for 3 years and have never had an LTS to LTS upgrade go smoothly. If you
read the docs for Lucid Beta 1 it seems to imply, if you read between the
lines, that such an upgrade would only work for servers but not for
anything with a GUI. I think your best bet would be to make a back up of
your root partition so that it is recent and then do a fresh install,
recovering anything from your fresh back up of your root partition that
you might need. I personally tend to install a lot of customized programs
locally and so my partition scheme includes 4 partitions if you include
swap, the others being / and /usr/local and /home That way, I only blow
away / when doing an upgrade and my locally installed programs don't get
bothered.
HTH,
Pia
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, [email protected] wrote:
Greetings,
I am in the process of making my plan to upgrade to lucid when it is
officially released in April. I am currently using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I
want to make sure everything is set for the transition to go as smooth as
possible.
Some potentially useful background: I'm using a laptop: duel-booting Ubuntu
and Windows XP. I HAVE Ubuntu split over two partitions (One for / and one
for /home). I maintain regular (monthly) backups of my rootsystem and home
directories (each partition gets its own backup). under the settings for
software sources and preferences (found under the administration menu of the
top pannel: I don't recall the exact name), I currently have my system set
to only upgrade to LTS versions of Ubuntu.
(A) configuration files?
Will my settings in configuration files (I.E. those found in /etc/) remain
preserved across the upgrade? Also will anything I added to ~.bashrc be
preserved as well? Or will I need to re-tweek these files upon upgrade.
(B) custom-builds?
I built the git editions of orca, at-spi and atk for the gnome-2.22 system.
Will apt-get dist-upgrade automatically replace these with the default
versions for lucid, or should I uninstall the git-builds and re-install the
repository versions?
(C) best upgrade method?
I've been switching from apt-get to aptitude for my package-management uses,
but from reading the documentation in man, it looks like apt-get
dist-upgrade is the recommended method for upgrading distribution releases
from the command-line: is this correct?
(D) anything else?
Are there any other concerns I should be looking at? Useful tidbits to keep
in mind?
Thank you in advance for your assistance:-)
I look forward to getting caught back up with the linux community.
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