[was supposed to be: Upgrade to Edgy]

janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net
Tue Oct 3 08:07:25 UTC 2006


Quite lame to reply to one's own post, but apologies for 
missing a subject line...

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:57:50 +0300
  janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net wrote:
> Hello there, list!
> 
> The temptation grew too big, and as I recently 
> re-installed Dapper on my laptop, I partitioned the 
>thing 
> so that I won't lose data if another reinstall is 
>needed. 
> Thus I wanted to upgrade to Edgy.
> 
> Great, googling reveales me:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades
> 
> ...which urges to try:
> 
> gksu "update-manager -c -d"
> 
> ...which does nothing. I understood -d switch is 
>supposed 
> to tell u-m to use beta releases as well. U-m always 
>tells 
> me my system is up-to-date, but:
> 
> jaska at jjod600n:~$ lsb_release --all
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS
> Release:        6.06
> Codename:       dapper
> 
> ...should indicate it's not. I thought I didn't need to 
> fiddle with sources.list anymore? Do I?
> 
> Yes, I could try, but I want to hear the current 
> understanding first. And yes, I could try with aptitude 
> (which is what I use mainly),  but having read mdz's 
> instructions of using it already from Breezy to Dapper, 
>I 
> wanted to try it now.
> 
> Also, if I shouldn't upgrade to Edgy _right now_, is 
> accepted as well. :) Is it _too_ broken now? I don't 
>mind 
> occasional breakage, mind you... :)
> 
> 
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