upgrades

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Sep 26 16:19:20 UTC 2008


Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 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)

Well, sort of.  The aptitude method is discouraged (I'm not sure you can
call it deprecated - which implies it will be completely discontinued in
the future).

However, Leonard's "adept" method _will_ take you through a proper upgrade
on a Kubuntu system.
-- 
derek





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