<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> 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@hotmail.com > CC: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re:upgrading to lucid > From: tcross@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@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:-) > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > > -- > Tim Cross > tcross@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@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. <hr />The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5' target='_new'>Get busy.</a></body> </html>