Is it wise to upgrade to Dapper (Kubuntu) now?

Dick Davies rasputnik at gmail.com
Tue May 9 22:04:39 UTC 2006


> On (10/05/06 09:14), Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > >> Is it wise to upgrade to Dapper (Kubuntu) now or should I wait until a
> > >> stable version is released and some time is passed for the bugs to be
> > >> fixed?
> > >
> > > That depends.  Are you willing to risk things occasionally being broken
> > > for the next month or so?  If not, it might be better to go with the
> > > stable release.  Me, I just installed Breezy onto the new hard drive of
> > > my primary laptop.  Reason:  I need stability more than anything else,
> > > and there's not really anything on my Thinkpad X31 that I use that
> > > *doesn't* work right.
> >
> > I know this is probably covered somewhere but my quick search can't find
> > it :- How can I easily upgrade from a new install of 5.10 to Dapper Drake?
> > Can someone do me a favor and point me in the right direction.

gksudo "update-manager -d"

(basically does the dist-upgrade - updates sources.list for you too -
 but also cleans out obsolete versions
of your packages. Worked fine when I did it today.)

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