<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>I've started using Ubuntu, several different flavors since I migrated from Windows a little over a year ago.<br>A couple things I learned...the hard way...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>1) There's a difference between upgrade and update.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> The safest way to upgrade to a different OS version is to do a fresh install, and make the home partition a separate partition. That way all my pictures,
song files, data, etc., remains intact. And the fresh install uses a very small space comparatively.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>2) Backup back up backup.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> Stuff can and will break, most often due to user error.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ubuntu-studio-users <ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:33 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Trying to update 14.04.1 to 14.10<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Oops, send from the wrong address, now I'm sorry for breaking the thread<br>by forwarding my original message.<br><br>-------- Forwarded Message --------<br>From: Ralf Mardorf <<a ymailto="mailto:ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com" href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com">ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Subject: Re:
[ubuntu-studio-users] Trying to update 14.04.1 to 14.10<br>Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:29:16 +0200<br>Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7 <br><br>On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 12:15 +0100, Alex Armani wrote:<br>> My internet tripped out doing an upgrade.<br>> How do I do the online upgrade? Now it doesn't seem to recognise that<br>> 14.10 is available.<br>> Is there a cli commands to do this please, aha tia from Alex.<br><br>My help wasn't welcome at the Kubuntu list, perhaps it's welcome here.<br>But you remember that Len once compared a release upgrade with a new<br>install? Before upgrading consider to backup the install.<br><br>-------- Forwarded Message --------<br>From: Ralf Mardorf <<a ymailto="mailto:kde.lists@yahoo.com" href="mailto:kde.lists@yahoo.com">kde.lists@yahoo.com</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Subject: Re: Muon Update
Manager<br>Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 01:03:00 +0200<br>Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7 <br><br>On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 08:46 +1000, Phil wrote:<br>> Thank you for reading this.<br>> <br>> I have Muon Update Manager's "Release upgrade" set to Normal Releases" <br>> yet I'm not notified of the new release. Xubuntu's updater (not on the <br>> same laptop) is similar to Muon Update Manager and it did show that <br>> 14.10 was available.<br>> <br>> I suspect that I have a conflicting configuration somewhere. Is there a <br>> way of forcing the upgrade or at least forcing the notification?<br><br>"Forcing" a relase upgrade could be done by command line:<br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/installing-upgrading.html" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/installing-upgrading.html</a><br><br>Notification about what kind of upgrade ever are a silly custom. That<br>makes people upgrade without at least reading the
news of their distro's<br>homepage, let alone that they never ever will read release notes. A<br>notification "hello, here are upgrades" is insane, a self-responsible<br>user is aware about needed upgrades and about things that need attention<br>when doing an upgrade. Just upgrading, while there is a notification<br>easily could end up disastrous. *buntu made a big step into the wrong<br>direction with this Windows/iOS like approach.<br><br>JFTR the Ubuntu Studio team compared release upgrades with installing a<br>new release and *buntu rlease upgrades tend to cause issues, you better<br>stay with your release or do a plain new install.<br><br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>ubuntu-studio-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a
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