Distribution Upgrade Help Needed

[Steve]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:56:02 +0100, Rich Shepard  
<rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    My wife's laptop is currently running xubuntu-8.04. I just finished
> upgrading all installed packages using Synaptic. However, it did not  
> offer
> me the option of upgrading the entire distribution to 9.04 and I don't  
> see a
> menu option to do so. I run Slackware on our other hosts so I have no  
> idea
> how to upgrade the distribution from within the GUI.
>
>    Should I su to root in a vitural console and run 'apt-get distribution
> upgrade' or take a different approach?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ric

Under Settings in Update-Manager there's a Release upgrade setting, alter  
that to Normal releases. You should then be offered the next version 8.10,  
you can't skip a release.

-- 
Steve