Distribution Upgrade Help Needed

[Kenneth Loafman]

Rich Shepard 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?

System / Administration / Software Sources / Updates tab at the bottom 
has a Release Upgrade section; select "Normal releases", then run Update 
Manager and it will let you upgrade via the GUI.  I've gone from Dapper 
to Jaunty (one at a time) using that process and it works well.

...Ken