[ubuntu-uk] upgrade

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-12-14, chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:34 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2006-12-14, chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com> wrote:
>> > Upgrade using the graphical update manager, +not+ apt-get. It is not
>> > equivalent anymore, sadly.
>> 
>> What about aptitude?
>
> Not sure. I think I remember hearing that Debian now officially
> recommends aptitude for dist-upgrades. I don't know if it works with
> Ubuntu though. I don't think so.

Hmm.  I've dist-upgraded from breezy to dapper and from dapper to edgy
using it.  The second one was a bit rough: it worked much better on
the second computer (over ssh) than on the first (in xterm in an XFCE4
session).

I prefer to rely on console rather than GUI tools for upgrading....