installing Feisty, but don't ask how. Aptitude "manual or howto files.

[Anthony J Brow]

Hi Folks,

First my thanks to Simon with the
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading site suggestion. It like many
other things I tried, did not make sense. When I first attempted the up
grade with the update manager, some 960 update files had to be
downloaded taking over 24 hours. With download 3/4 finished, I
accidentally shut the system down late at night. Tried again the next
day and this time the upgrade manager only needed 120 files taking 9
hours to download. Trying to install  these update files, my system
froze and I had no other option but to re-install Ubuntu 6.10 and start
from scratch. Finally after two days trying, I got feisty installed, but
it seems to be a limited edition. And now I want to re-install Firefox
because it is not working properly and is very slow.

When the update manager wants to download heaps of files over such a
long time, can the proposed down be shortened, so that the download can
be done in 2 or3 sessions?

Further it has been suggested that aptitude should be used iso apt-get
or synaptics. Is there a manual or similar for aptitude. Sofar nothing
satisfactory on google as far as I can see.


thanks in advance, ladies/gents
-- 
Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>