In place upgrade Dapper=>Edgy=>Feisty

[John L Fjellstad]

Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> writes:

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:56:19 -0700
> John L Fjellstad <john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org> wrote:
>
>> I just updated a machine from Breezy to Feisty, so I'm not sure why
>> Dapper to Feisty wouldn't work.
>
> Interesting!
>
> Did you have any major issues doing this? (Everything I have read suggests
> avoiding it. )
>
> I have never tried to skip a release on upgrade, so it would be
> interesting to hear how you went about it, and what issues, if any, you
> encountered.

Didn't really have any big issues.  I basically do what I always do on
distro upgrades:
go to the command line (exit X)
update sources.list
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade (do this until there are no more packages to
upgrade.  In the Breezy -> Feisty upgrade, I think I had to do it about
7 times)
aptitude install kubuntu-desktop (last step, could try to do it as first
step too, but it didn't work here).

Now, to be fair, this Breezy was a virgin installation.  I had a spare
machine I wanted to install Kubuntu Feisty on, and I just happened to
have a Kubuntu Breezy CD.  This meant I didn't have any extra packages
like the codecs etc installed.

But I did upgrade Dapper to Edgy on my main system main system without
problems, and here I have all bunch of stuff installed (third party
repos, opera, penguin liberation front packages etc etc).  One thing I
have avoided, and I think this is the cause of many of the upgrade
problems, was to install stuff like automatix.

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John L. Fjellstad
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