Upgrades?

[Tony Arnold]

Matthew,

Matthew Clarke wrote:
> I think you forgot to mention changing the repos before doing the
> apt-get update...
> 
> it's best to reference the official upgrade docs(mentioned in a couple
> previous posts), because it seems that they recommend a new procedure.
> 
> something along these lines now:
> 
> sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
> sudo do-release-upgrade
> 
> which is nice because I think it allows the user to avoid having to edit
> the apt sources file.  nice!

Looks cool. Is this purely a command line interface, or does it require
a GUI? That is, can I ssh into a machine 300 miles away and invoke this?

Regards,
Tony.
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