Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?

[Timothy Webster]

I disagree, there is no need to wipe  and reinstall to upgrade to ubuntu 8.04. 
It does take a little skill and please install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges before you try to upgrade. Read the bugs reported by apt-listbugs, you may not want to install a broken package. And don't try to do a one shot upgrade, those usually fail. 

Look at the upgrade list and upgrade a few at a time. With extra care to things which include major changes, so read those change list too. Also keep an eye on what extra stuff it is trying to install or remove. This is much easier to do if you only upgrade a few packages at a time.

Divide the upgrade into little upgrades like it was met to be and you will have no problems. Yes it will take a little longer, but does it really mater that it took a dozen little upgrades and worked.

If you apply debian dpkgs to ubuntu or ubuntu dpkgs to debian, you will need to watch dependences and conflicts. Only do this if you are brave, have lots of time to debug things. It is actually easier in many cases to pull the source dpkg and auto build the dpkg and install it. If you want to mix distros.

--- On Sun, 5/25/08, R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca> wrote:
From: R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?
To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 8:34 PM

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Allegedly, on Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:39:44AM -0400, Alfred stated:
> Hi Andrew & The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community:
> 
> I went to /etc/apt/sources.list and unchecked all the Hardy CD and DVD
> items, and then reverted in checking all the Gutsy items. Then when I
> took a look in Update all 577 updates were no longer listed. Thank you
> for this answer it seems to be what I was looking for. However in just a
> few minutes all 577 items returned, so there must be some other form of
> backup list.
[snip]

Hi Alfred,

I recommend you do a clean install of whatever latest version of Ubu
you're trying to install.

Ubu seems to have broken the old Debian mantra 'install once, upgrade
forever' approach AFAICT (that's one of the reasons why I went back to
Debian in the end actually).  In your case it is even more pressing
since you left your system 'unpatched' for so long, ignoring available
security updates.  There is no way I would trust your system anymore.
In addition you were applying Debian packages to your Ubu system IIRC --
and this is never recommended.

My advice (take it or leave it): Backup your data, do a completely fresh
install, copy your data back, and then this time apply security updates
promptly so your system is protected against evil crackers, and stick to
the Ubu respositories...

My $0.02,
Raymond
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