upgrading one version of ubuntu to another

[Storm Dragon]

Hi,
You can do sudo update-manager -d from the terminal, but I have never
had good results from doing it this way. Thee's another command you can
use from the big terminal but I don't exactly remember the syntax. It
was something like sudo do-release-upgrade.  I thik that may be the way
to go for a speech enabled upgrade with speakup.
HTH
Storm


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On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 04:22 +0000, michael weaver wrote:

> someone at my linux usergroup or lug once said to me that i 
> don't
> need to do fresh installs when upgrading from one version of
> ubuntu to another.
> if this is so is the most accessiable way for someone totally
> blind to do it who doesn't have a sighted person around whose
> family are not linux users is to edit all the entries that beginn
> with deb in the etcstapsstsourcestddlist and do an apt-get update
> followed by apt-get upgrade?
> i notice the update-manager is fairly accessible when doing a
> simple update to get the latest fixes and security etc but once
> when i tried to use it to do an upgrade someone said my dowload
> had not started after i did an alt f2 update-manager comd
> command, hit enter on the upgrade button and typed my admin
> password.  my guess is that there is a dialogue box which comes
> up with some other button that possibly needs to be tabbed to
> which needs hitting before the actual upgrade starts and that if
> you don't locate this button and enter on it, the operating
> system will not upgrade properly if at all.
> 
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