Upgrade to Hoary: Ubuntu-update

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 15:21 -0600, 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?

Possibly you just did an "upgrade" and not a "dist-upgrade"

dist-upgrade ("smart upgrade" in synaptic), will install new packages:
"upgrade" just upgrades the existing ones.