upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Friday 28 December 2007, Florin Andrei wrote:

> Are there any issues with doing an upgrade (as opposed to backup /
> format / install fresh / restore) from Ubuntu Studio 7.04 to 7.10?

I had a number of problems with the upgrade, starting with not being able to 
complete it using the officially recommended graphical tool.  I had to go old 
school, and spend an evening with apt-get -f and friends, but I eventually 
worked through the mess.  It was a pretty big mess, and it took several 
iterations to get everything upgraded.

I'm not sure exactly what I did.  I just worked through it using my Debian Sid 
training.  That kind of mess used to be a regular part of my life.

> Any issues during the upgrade related to the special kernel used by
> Studio? Issues with NVidia binary driver?

Not that I remember.  I certainly didn't have any highly critical show 
stopping problems. It was just a pain in the ass to get the number of 
packages that still needed upgrading down to zero.
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D. Michael McIntyre