how to upgrade

[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ali Milis wrote:

> On 4/18/07, bill biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How I upgrade to 7.04 form 6.10 with or losing all my data ?
>
> # setenv RANT
> unfortunately, k/ubuntu is not debian :(.
> It is faster to reinstall -- compared to upgrade.

I've never had any problems (I've been an Ubuntu user
since Warty) with using sed, apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade (fixing a couple of things sometimes, mid-progress). And
that's on a few machines, with different packages on each.

> Just make sure; that you have a copy of:
> /etc; /home; /root; /usr/local; and a set file of
> dpkg --get-selections > /save/directory/get-selections.txt

If you care about it, back it up.

One thing to watch out for (IME) is config file changes; I tend to 
manually diff/change, rather than allowing automatic maintainers'
updates.