Dapper-updater For KDE

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:45 -0700, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> > Have been reading list with interest on all the
> > questions regarding upgrading to Hardy Herron.
> Noticed
> > one post in particular saying to add
> Dapper-updater to
> > Upgrade Manager as it contained additional upgrade
> > checks to assure a good upgrade that apt-get or
> > aptitude didn't have.  Or something to that
> effect. 
> 
> I assume that you mean a post of mine, so let me try
> to shed some light,
> although I don't use KDE. Note: this whole thing
> about dapper-updates
> only applies if you are currently running Ubuntu
> 6.06 (Dapper). If you
> are running 7.10 (Gutsy) simply follow these upgrade
> instructions:

Thanks Mario, the above explains is all.  I somehow
missed that you were referring to updating from Dapper
or maybe picked it up after snipping.  Next time I'll
try to pay better attention although with all the
posts re: Hardy upgrading that may be hard.  
>
 
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#head-8ee23c592a6b8e8b7d40a5b363cf5fbc7ed3178a
>
> <snip>
> > BTW, I couldn't find
> > Dapper-Updater, or whatever it was called, in the
> > K-menu anywhere or with aptitude search.
> > Hoping to clear this confusing issue, Thanks.
> 
> We were talking not about a package to install, but
> about a separate
> software repository, which is named dapper-updates.
> In case you don't
> know, the software in Ubuntu is separated into
> different repositories
> that serve different purposes. You will find an
> introduction to
> repositories here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories
> 
> There is a link from this page to instructions on
> managing repositories
> in Kubuntu:
>
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu
> 
> 
> In general, follow these instructions to upgrade
> from 6.06 (Dapper) to
> 8.04:
>
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#head-8ee23c592a6b8e8b7d40a5b363cf5fbc7ed3178a-2
> At step 1, simply follow the process that I just
> outlined above.
> 
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Leonard Chatagnier
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