Kubuntu breezy->apt-get dist-upgrade->dapper[worked4meBut...]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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Should I even consider doing an apt-get install update-manager for
when I upgrade 6 months from now???? I heard in ubuntu-users that 
update-manager works better than apt-get...	! ??????????????

I also heard that update-manager needs to have the gui up and
running DURING the upgrade process?

And I kind of liked the plan where all I had to do was replace each
string of "breezy" with "dapper" in the sources list and then just:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
{copy a few files from /boot to my real boot partition}
{edit my real grub.conf}
reboot & play with dapper...

Especially since I could do this from a virtual console. 
# In my case I did the above between a clean reboot of my 
# breezy system and the first time I'd have run startx...
# (I never really trusted leaving the gui up during major upgrades)

Now like I said in the Subject: line, this worked for me, (this time).
Apart from having to reinstall a few things like open office & mozilla
and redo some kde preferences, it went really well. In fact about the
only really annoying thing was having to look back in my pine
saved-message folder for the clue that told me how to use:
update-rc.d -f kdm remove
to dump the annoying gui-login prompt, and let me start at runlevel 3.

Having been used to burning a new installation cd to upgrade
fedora & etc... I found the apt-get method almost painless. 

But since this is the first time I did it this way, I don't know if
that's the way it usually works, or if I simply got lucky this time.

So is there any real reason to try update-manager next time?
Would it be likely to work better on my kubuntu system than apt-get?
Does it even have a text mode user interface yet???

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