Dist Upgrade

[Tom H]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> 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.

The default mode of "do-release-upgrade" is "do-release-upgrade -m
server" which upgrades Ubuntu server.

To use "do-release-upgrade" for a desktop/laptop, you have to run
"do-release-upgrade -m desktop".