Noobie question concerning upgrading, was Re: Daper -> Fiesty

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 20:07 -0300, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> It was when Feisty was recently released, so I don't remember the details. But 
> aptitude's "advanced dependency algorithm" (compared to apt-get) wasn't 
> enough - it gave up after several minutes every time I tried.
> 
> I also tried to make it one step at a time (upgrade/dist-upgrade, then retry; 
> sometimes a reboot in between, even against my beliefs that it wouldn't 
> matter - and in fact it didn't). Then I reached a point when no package 
> upgrade was possible.

It does not sound as if you exhausted all venues. What about "apt-get -f
install", cautious use of "dpkg -i --force-things", etc.? Also I don't
think it's such a good idea to upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade.

> > What do you mean?
> > 
> 
> That the problems I faced are expected to happen, by the devels, and will be 
> dealt with the time comes.

You did not use the officially supported upgrade procedure, and so you
are on your own when you upgrade with apt-get or aptitude.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes