Is it wise to upgrade to Dapper (Kubuntu) now?
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed May 10 22:20:54 UTC 2006
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:47:13AM +1000, Anthony David wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:57:02PM +0200, Guido Heumann wrote:
> > I recently learned that the method of changing sources.list and using
> > aptitude for dist-upgrade is no longer recommended. More info on this
> > directly from mdz in the sub-thread starting here:
> >
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-April/075376.html
>
> Its only failing is that it needs to run under X.
Server systems tend to have far fewer packages installed, and so the
upgrades are simpler (and usually handled adequately by apt-get or
aptitude). However, the upgrade system used by update-manager is modular
and has the capability to have a text-mode frontend added to it.
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- mdz
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