How to upgrade Ubuntu

[Florian Diesch]

DigitalPig <lizhenqing.fudan at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Arvind K" <arvindkhadri at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,you can do that very easily when Hardy gets released..
>> The command is
>> $sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Besides this, another way is to use update-manager -d to upgrade dist,
> which is the official way by Ubuntu forum.
>
> I had seen some reports that they got stuck in booting new dist after
> issuing apt-get dist-upgrade. Maybe the incompatibility between apt and
> Ubuntu? No idea in fact.

apt-get uses the package dependencies to  determine the order for the
packages to upgrade while update-manager uses some additional hints
from the developers to avoid problems.



   Florian
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