upgrade to next kubuntu via cd-rom or # apt-get -u dist-upgrade ???

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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upgrade to next kubuntu via cd-rom or # apt-get -u dist-upgrade ???

Hello, I'm fairly new to kubuntu. and to apt-get. though not so new to
linux, At the moment my p3 multi-boots kubuntu 5.10, mandrake 9.1, 2
fedora core releases ( FC1 & *FC2), DrDos, and for chucks & giggles I can
still boot win98se...

* 	I've been meaning to find the time to upgrade the FC2 since FC3
* 	came out, never mind FC4... Just haven't found the time <sigh>

I recently decided to try ubuntu, and I soon learned that kubuntu was
for kde users... In any case I noticed that the installer didn't seam to
have an upgrade option.

As in if I already had kubuntu 5.4 installed AND had all my favorite
applications installed and configured, and with user preferences
configured as well... Well it didn't look like I could install 5.10 from
the cd without loosing all those configurations. But would rather only
be able to install it as a new installation???
  (yeah I know, I could use a separate partition for /home, or simply
   back it up somewhere. But I'd still have to remember which packages
   to apt-get to get back any of my applications not installed by
   default...right?) 
Did I miss something? How did existing hoary users upgrade to breezy
without having to reconfigure everything from scratch???
  
This bothered me until I saw something about apt being able to "upgrade
to a new release"... Well Now that I've almost got kubuntu working the
way I want it, I've had some time to look at how I'll manage to upgrade
when the time comes without having to start over from scratch.

I found an apt-get how-to at:

 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html

Which had a section called:

3.5 Upgrading to a new release

Which I almost find reassuring. But the command line example they use
doesn't seam to specify what release to upgrade to. And I can't see
where the text explains that part of it...

I mean would I back-up and then figure out how to manually edit
/etc/apt/sources.list to point at the next releases repositories?
or does "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" somehow automatically find the latest
release of kubuntu??? (in which case does it automatically update
/etc/apt/sources.list to point at the new releases repositories instead
of the old ones???)

Thanks in advance.

	Joe

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