I have a friend with Ubuntu 9.04 and I will do a version upgrade for them soon. One option is to version upgrade online to 9.10 and then, at another convenient future date, version upgrade to 10.04 LTS, which they will stay with for a longer time.
Another option is to do a clean reinstall of Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS now, and then re-configure to match the user's apps and data. One suggestion I have received is, that after a clean reinstall of 10.04.1, I could then replace the clean /home/username directory with the copy of the directory from the user's 9.04 which I would have created earlier in careful backups. Thinking of this last option, I find a number of questions come to mind. What is the effect of brutally just replacing /home/username from an earlier version, possibly two or so versions old? The user has one app for example, Digikam (in Ubuntu) which they regularly use, and this I guess uses a number of kde libraries whatever. I cannot help wondering what sort of clean up (or chaos) I might be faced with, perhaps out of my depth too, by following this latter approach. I would welcome comments here. tia -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
