Debian Sarge to Ubuntu?
John
dingo at coco2.arach.net.au
Thu Sep 23 13:19:46 UTC 2004
Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:46:19PM -0300, Guillermo Movia wrote:
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>>> Hi, i read in the FAQ, that somebody try to install ubuntu with
>>> apt-get from Debian Sarge. Where are the results? I want to try
>>> Ubuntu, but my ADSL modem is hard to install, and installing by
>>> apt-get maybe is the solution.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Upgrades from Sarge to Warty are not recommended; this is not
>> supported, and
>> rather risky. A fresh install from CD is strongly preferred.
>>
> You will be able to upgrade from woody to Warty. You will be able to
> move from sarge to Hoary (our next release after Warty). But Sarge to
> Warty is not supported (it might work, but it's definitely not
> supported) since the mix of package versions is awkward.
>
<Pedant alert>
I have servers running Woody. I can upgrade those to Warty and they're
supported?
I have a Woody desktop running KDE (just the one). I can upgrade that to
Warty and it's supported with KDE?
</alert>
I think you've said Universe is unsupported. In practice, if I choose to
run KDE in preference to Gnome, what does that mean regarding security
fixes, general fixes, bug reports & such?
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