[ubuntu-in] Upgrading to dapper repos..suicide or not?

[Carthik Sharma]

On 3/29/06, Prashanth Mohan <prashmohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sudharshan S wrote:
> > hello linuxers,
> > I hav this question...Is it ok to upgrade to add dapper repositories,
> > last time i did it, i broke the X configuration..Whats the correct way
> > getting all the juicy stuff..
>
> Hey Sudharshan!
>
> Dapper is very stable for me! Replace your sources.list file with
> 'http://prash.be/files/sources.list' and then run an `apt-get update &&
> apt-get dist-upgrade`. This should do fine :-)
>

Sudarshan,

If you ever used breezy-backports, it would serve you well to leave
the lines in sources.list that refer to it. Without those lines, the
backported packages will look like they are abandoned broken packages.

Dapper is stable, except if the new kernel does not support some
hardware you have. I have a Davicom ethernet adapter, and faced some
problem with the new kernel, but i am glad to say I am the exception.
Even then, I found a bug fix that involved removing a module and
inserting another one.

Maybe you should set apart 5-8 gigs on your drive so you can try
installing two versions of Ubuntu on the same PC, to ensure everything
works fine first before you upgrade.

Carthik.
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