Dist Upgrade

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I do know you can't use dist-upgrade on Ubuntu.  It will break a ton of
>>> stuff.
>>
>> I haven't heard of this before. Anyone want to corroborate? Maybe I was
>> lucky but I used it recently to upgrade some packages that were held
>> back.
>
> "Can't" is a highly loaded word.  You "can't" necessarily use "dist-upgrade"
> to get all the updates that update-manager would provide.  You _can_ always
> use dist-upgrade.  It will not "break a ton of stuff".

That's what I figured. NoOp put me onto

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/installing-upgrading.html

Which says, in part

"The recommended way to upgrade a Server Edition installation is to use 
the do-release-upgrade utility. Part of the update-manager-core package, 
it does not have any graphical dependencies and is installed by 
default."

Granted it's referring to server upgrades but I'm wondering why this 
wouldn't apply to desktop systems.

Comments?

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