Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Timothy Webster <tdwebste2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

Normally, it is recommended that the one-shot upgrade be done using
the upgrade-manager instead of these multiple smaller upgrades (I
assume using apt-get).  The reason for this is that Ubuntu developers
do add some logic under the hood of updater-manager to deal with
typical scenarios and frequent problems that could arise during an
upgrade for one version to the next of Ubuntu. That logic may not be
there if you use the more generic update tools like apt-get or
synaptic.

The online documents generally have some details about possible
"gotcha" situations you may face:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeProblems

Personally I have done a few 7.10 to 8.04 upgrades this spring, all
with the update manager, and they all went smoothly.  Maybe it was
luck, but that's my personal experience.  But I also try to keep my
systems relatively clean; minimize the package from the Universe
repository I use,  very rarely use 3rd party packages, try not to mix
deb and ubuntu packages, etc.


Daniel

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