upgrading to lucid

[Jacob Schmude]

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HI Bill
I got bit by this too, going from 9.10 to 10.04. In a nutshell, I've
found that sometimes ubuntu-desktop and some of its associated packages
get removed, though I've not found out why. The solution is, immediately
after doing the dist-upgrade and before you reboot, to sudo apt-get
install ubuntu-desktop. That will put everything back into place, things
like gnome-session-bin and nautilus will be put back in as well after
dist-upgrade somehow autoremoved them. I suspect this is something
update-manager would normally take care of, but I've had my own set of
problems with that approach.
I don't know for certain, but I suspect this also applies to the other
ubuntu meta packages such as ubuntu-netbook. I don't use them though, so
can't say.
I also had a rather hacked system, so who knows if this will happen to
most people. Before now I thought I was the only one who got bit by it
since I didn't see anything like this when searching the Ubuntu forums.
Just to be safe though, always sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (or
whatever other meta package you use) after a dist-upgrade. It won't hurt
anything anyway.

On 04/29/2010 08:17 AM, Bill Cox wrote:
> I always ran
> 
> $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> But I've had trouble most times with this.  More often than not, I
> have not been able to boot my machine into Gnome after a dist-upgrade
> from a full release back.  However, I hack my system pretty heavily,
> so my experience is probably not the norm.  If you're running a recent
> Lucid Beta or release candidate, it will probably work.  Be sure to do
> a full backup before the upgrade, and be prepared to do a full
> reinstall if things don't work out.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:46 AM,  <aerospace1028 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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