upgrading to lucid

[Tim Cross]

I notice your still back on hardy. I expect you will need to upgrade through
jaunty and karmic to get to lucid. Its going to take some time. Probably best
to wait until things quieten down. It took several attempts to download the
packages yesterday due to high traffic. 

Tim

aerospace1028 at hotmail.com writes:
 > Thanks Tim,
 > I was leaning towards do-release-upgrade because I'm a little more comfortable with the comand-line than graphical applications.  I think I'm going to wait a couple of days before attempting the upgrade to let the traffic through the repositories slow down.
 > 
 > thanks:-)
 > 
 > > Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:34:41 +1000
 > > To: aerospace1028 at hotmail.com
 > > CC: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
 > > Subject: Re:upgrading to lucid
 > > From: tcross at rapttech.com.au
 > > 
 > > 
 > > I have always used do-release-upgrade. This morning, I used it to upgrade to
 > > lucid and all looks OK so far. 
 > > 
 > > I'm a bit old fashioned though. My main interface is based on emacspeak. I've
 > > not used orca that much. Therefore, I tend to use text based apps over
 > > graphics based ones, despite the fact I run under X. 
 > > 
 > > Tim
 > > 
 > > aerospace1028 at hotmail.com writes:
 > >  > 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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Tim Cross
tcross at rapttech.com.au

There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they 
understand and those who do not understand what they manage.
-- 
Tim Cross
tcross at rapttech.com.au

There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they 
understand and those who do not understand what they manage.