Thanks Tim,
I was leaning towards do-release-upgrade because I'm a little more comfortable
with the comand-line than graphical applications. I think I'm going to wait a
couple of days before attempting the upgrade to let the traffic through the
repositories slow down.
thanks:-)
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:34:41 +1000
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re:upgrading to lucid
> From: [email protected]
>
>
> I have always used do-release-upgrade. This morning, I used it to upgrade to
> lucid and all looks OK so far.
>
> I'm a bit old fashioned though. My main interface is based on emacspeak. I've
> not used orca that much. Therefore, I tend to use text based apps over
> graphics based ones, despite the fact I run under X.
>
> Tim
>
> [email protected] writes:
> > greetings,
> > I did some more research on how to update ubuntu distributions from the
> command line. The two options appear to be:
> >
> > (1) sudo update-manager
> >
> > (2) sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop
> >
> > method 1 would just launch the graphical application from the command line
> (gnome-terminal) and in general is the recommended distribution upgrade
> method from the ubuntu wiki. I can't find much doccumentation on
> do-release-upgrade, are there any drastic differences btween what these two
> programs do?
> >
> > Does anyone have any advice on which is the better (faster? more
> accessible?) method for updateing my Ubuntu system to lucid?
> >
> > Thanks:-)
> >
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