upgrading to lucid

[aerospace1028 at hotmail.com]

Hi Bill,
Sorry, I forgot to mention I was way back on Hardy (8.04 LTS).

I had origianally considered apt-get dist-upgrade, but some one else on the list claimed it provided problems.  I scavenged the ubuntu wiki and found a couple passing references to do-release-upgrade.  

I don't think I have much hacks on my system.  I built atk, at-spi and orca--for the 2.22 desktop--from git (so i could build against liblouis).




> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:17:21 -0400
> Subject: Re: upgrading to lucid
> From: waywardgeek at gmail.com
> To: aerospace1028 at hotmail.com
> CC: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> 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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