Upgrade to Hoary: Ubuntu-update

Adam Membrey membreya at optusnet.com.au
Mon Apr 11 21:30:57 UTC 2005


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:21 am, zer0halo wrote:
> When the Preview of Hoary was released, I upgraded from Warty (which I
> had been running) to Hoary. Worked fine. I've done a number of
> upgrades since then, and when the final came out, I upgraded again to
> that. Everything runs nicely, gnome 2.10 is great (finally windows
> networking that works), etc.
>
> Then yesterday I noticed when looking at a friends' fresh install of
> Hoary that something was different. For example, I don't have the
> "Ubuntu Update Manager" item under System...Applications.
>
> PS. Okay, as I was writing this, the solution dawned on me. Since I
> was just "upgrading" from Warty, a new package like ubuntu-update
> would not be upgraded since it didn't exist in Warty. So I just now
> looked for at and sure enough it's there in the repositories, so I'm
> installing it now. Okay, that's solved. But it seems to me that such
> an important new feature of Ubuntu should be automatically installed
> when "upgrading" from the previous release (ie, Warty).
>
> It makes me wonder if there are other "new features" in Hoary that
> require separate packages not originally available in Warty and
> therefore not "upgraded" and have to be manually installed. Anyone
> know?

This may be pointing out the obvious, but have you tried doing a sudo apt-get 
dist-upgrade?

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