[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

[Matthew Daubney]

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:58 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 12/10/10 15:11, Liam Proven wrote:
> 
> > I did a fresh install on my Thinkpad X31 laptop, which went fine (but
> > the netbook launcher is comprehensively broken on this hardware).
> >
> > You are really putting me off trying the upgrade on my desktop - but
> > then, I planned to leave it a few weeks for the post-launch updates to
> > accumulate, anyway...
> >
> 
> I'm just doing an upgrade at the moment (disabled any PPA's, changed 
> lucid entries to maverick in sources.list and then ran apt-get update 
> followed by apt-get dist-upgrade).
> 

Oof, you realise this isn't the supported method for doing this? If
you're doing a cli upgrade you should use do-release-upgrade as it'll
pull in some new things and (apparently) does a few other fixes.

-Matt Daubney