Dapper upgrade from Breezy (sources.list)

[gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen]

I had a very frustrating experience upgrading from 5.10 to 6.06 (or, in my  
best Monty Python(C) voice - "I have a complaint!")

I have dialup. estimated time to upgrade was on the order of 5 days. So I  
wait for the CD. The CD wants to overwrite my machine, so I spent 4 days  
attempting to backup, just in case - don't ask, big hassle, should have  
done it yonks ago anyway. So I go to install, and it now says it will take  
3 days.... At this point I have no choice. 3 days later it finishes... but  
no! it does not boot into KDM (or gdm) and there is no KDE installed,  
though startx produces a gnome install, with most stuff missing.  
Reinstalling Kubuntu-desktop takes another day or 2 and lots of fiddling  
reinstalling open office - lots of uninstalled/broken packages...  
including gksu - kinda important, really...

here is what I find disappointing.

the CD had no upgrade path
the CD did not have repositories for KDE, Linux kernel or even Xorg - the  
3 biggest items I had to download and install

still, it mostly works now... I'm sure I'll find various broken bits as I  
go... like wincodec...

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:25:57 +1000, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net>  
wrote:

> On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:53, Tez wrote:
>> Frank Arnold wrote:
>> > OK. I want to upgrade Kubuntu Breezy to Dapper.
>> > And don't want to lose my home directory.
>> > Would someone please email to me a usable sources list for this?
>> > Thank you and much appeciated.
>> > Any upgrade tips would be greatly appreciated also.
>> > Frank Arnold
>> > Third Street Community Center
>> > San Jose, CA
>>
>> Just replace all the instances of breezy with dapper in your  
>> sources.list
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> Then go make a sandwich and watch TV for a couple of hours.
>
> I haven't done Breezy -> Dapper, but I have done Warty->Hoary->Breezy,  
> and I
> have one more suggestion.
>
> Even if you are doing your upgrade with apt, I'd download the  
> installation CD
> and burn it and replace the Breezy CD in your sources list with the new
> Breezy CD.  It seems to make the uploads go smoother and decreases  
> downloads
> during the upgrade.



-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Chance favours the prepared mind