Debian Woody -> Ubuntu Dapper?

Antony Gelberg antony at wayforth.co.uk
Fri Apr 21 13:26:06 UTC 2006


Busted Monkey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As Dapper's more or less a newer version of Debian, would it be
> possible to simply change your sources.list to point to the Dapper
> repositories and do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from a old Debian Woody
> installation?
> 

Ubuntu is not Debian, and this is unsupported but you might be able to 
do it if you're experienced with dealing with broken packages.  If you 
are going to have a go, try it with aptitude rather than apt-get, but I 
feel that your time may be better spent installing Ubuntu from scratch.




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