How to upgrade edgy to feisty?

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 09:10 -0700, David Vincent wrote:
> cj wrote:
> > Dennis Mouille wrote:
> >> How do I upgrade from edgy to feisty from the command line?  If 
> >> someone could point me to a site that will give specific instructions 
> >> it would be appreciated.
> >> thanks, Dennis
> >>
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> > i believe sudo apt-get distro update is your answer
> > 
> > --cj
> > 
> 
> - edit /etc/apt/sources.list
> - disable any third-party repos
> - replace any occurrence of "edgy" with "feisty"
> - at the prompt run "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
> - then wait and keep checking for prompts about overwriting customized 
> files etc. etc.
> 
> if it craps out you can usually get back on track by running:
> 
> - sudo apt-get install -f
> - sudo dpkg --configure -a
> 
> and once those commands stop returning errors you can resume the upgrade 
> by running the "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" command again.

This seems easier:
$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
$ sudo do-release-upgrade

> -d
> 
> hope this helps
> 
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