upgrades

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> Subject: Re: upgrades
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 12:39 AM
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 18:17 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > You should be able to upgrade to Intreped by changing
> > your /etc/apt/sources.list entries from hardy to
> intrepid(hope
> > spelling is right) and doing(after sudo aptitude
> update and sudo
> > aptitude upgrade or use adept or synaptic to upgrade
> hardy) sudo
> > aptitude update followed by sudo aptitude
> dist-upgrade. You can also
> > do this with synaptic and adept package manager(see
> manuals for each).
> 
> As posted frequently, this method is deprecated and
> unsupported. The
> supported method is to use update-manager (or, on servers
> without X, its
> CLI cousin)
> 
Are all of the methods I listed, synaptic and adept, depreciated.  I use kubuntu-desktop and have never used update-manager before yet I've upgraded to new versions with and without total success.  Would just like to see the whole ball of wax shown here, If there is any.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net