[ubuntu-us-ut] upgrading to gutsy

[jtaber]

Christer Edwards wrote:
> On Sun Sep 23, 2007 at 12:46:25AM -0600, jtaber wrote:
>   
>> how hard is it to upgrade existing Feisty to Gutsy without downloading 
>> the entire iso ?  How is it done ?  (somehow pointing to a new 
>> repository I guess ?  )
>>     
>
> sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
> :%s/feisty/gutsy/g
> :wq
> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude upgrade
> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>
> those commands will change to the gutsy repository and then update your
> machine.  it may take some time because it'll need to download all the
> latest packages but it is a bit more seamless than getting the CD and
> installing from scratch.
>   
Thanks - Feisty just started going real bad on my MacBook - Firefox 
keeps hanging, especially after playing UTube videos and then in one of 
my user accounts, the screen just logs in blank - no gnome menus, no 
desktop files, just a blank screen - I was able to log into another user 
account and create another user and xfer the files but what a pain and 
lack of stability.  Now I cannot recreate the old user account even 
though I deleted it - plays havoc with some of the urls / hard coded 
paths that I had.  Yuk.