Ubuntu Studio 8.04 -> 9.04 upgrade

[Michael Sullivan]

Brian David wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Michael Sullivan <garuda at wi.rr.com 
> <mailto:garuda at wi.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, with the DVD in the drive it says that there are 464 packages
>     that
>     I can install, when I click on the icon to start the update
>     manager, it
>     comes up, but then a warning comes up saying that not all updates
>     can be
>     installed.  When I look at the package list, many of the main audio
>     packages are not checked - like for example, Ardour (main reason
>     for the
>     upgrade!) so I'm a bit confused.  Is this one of those situations
>     where
>     the upgrade has to be done in several passes or what?   The vanilla
>     ubuntu documentation says you cannot to a direct upgrade from 8.04 -
>     9.04, but with Kubuntu you can - hence the confusion and the
>     question....
>
>
>     Christian Masser wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > No, you don't need to to a clean install. When you put in the CD
>     while
>     > running 8.04 there should be a message, that a new version has been
>     > found or something like that, there you can do a system upgrade to
>     > 9.04 directly.
>     >
>     > 2009/4/25 Michael Sullivan <garuda at wi.rr.com
>     <mailto:garuda at wi.rr.com> <mailto:garuda at wi.rr.com
>     <mailto:garuda at wi.rr.com>>>
>     >
>     >     Hi
>     >
>     >     I just downloaded the alternate iso for 9.04 and wanted to
>     know if
>     >     I can
>     >     upgrade directly from Ubuntu Studio 8.04. I avoided 8.10
>     because of no
>     >     RT kernel, but does that mean that I have to do a clean
>     install (which
>     >     would be a real pain in the ass)?
>     >
>     >     Thanks in advance.....
>     >
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> I can't seem to find it in my mail archives at the moment, but I seem 
> to remember that this issue was discussed before and at that time it 
> was said that upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04 would NOT be supported, so 
> you'd have to upgrade to Intrepid first and then to Jaunty, or just do 
> a clean install.  However, an upgrade between LTS releases (such as 
> Hardy to Karmic) would be supported.
>
> -- 
> -Brian David
To further add to my confusion, now it seems like the update manager 
wants to upgrade 464 packages even though the DVD isn't in the drive and 
I have tossed the iso from the hard drive.  Is this because I downloaded 
9.04 or is everyone else on 8.04 getting similar messages?  I looked 
into it a bit, and update manager wants to remove quite a few packages 
(120 IIRC) so I really don't want to mess things up with my current 
setup, but worry that any security updates might force me to.   I have 
only used Ubuntu Studio since 8.04 but used Debian for years and haven't 
run into anything like this since running Debian unstable  5 years or so 
ago....