What's up with aptitude?

[Chris Pratt]

Rather than run an entirely beta OS, your other option is to run this
"beta" software on 8.04 by modifying your source lists to allow the
backports to show up via update manager...

Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Alan Milnes
> <deep64blue at itguru.org.uk <mailto:deep64blue at itguru.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Ubuntu 8.04 is an LTS release, which means it will be stable and
>     supported for a number of years. Changes are very carefully
>     managed and
>     are mainly for security fixes etc. This is a *good* thing
>     ESPECIALLY for
>     Servers.
>
>     You can have a look in Software Sources and enable proposed and
>     unsupported updates if you want to live at the edge - or download the
>     betas of Intrepid (the next Ubuntu version) and try it out.
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I think what I need to do is install Intrepid. This server of mine is
> only a small personal server that I use for a couple of things, so I
> don't mind a devel version of Ubuntu on it, if that's the way I have
> to go for the latest packages. Can I update my version of Ubuntu to
> Intrepid easily through PuTTY? If so, can you tell me where to start?
> Perhaps there's a tutorial I can read? Thanks again.