Karmic Beta version

David Curtis dcurtis at uniserve.com
Tue Sep 29 15:57:53 UTC 2009


On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:36:59 -0400
Tim Tebbit <ttebbit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 	The new Beta version should become available to download
> > but I can't find the proper web page to get it. I am closest to 
> > http://ubuntu-mirror.cs.colorado.edu but this mirror has 
> > nothing about Alfa or Beta versions.
> > 
> > 	What is the proper URL?
> 
> 
> Require the CD? Why not just edit your sources.list accordingly and
> upgrade?

A bad idea. The proper way to release upgrade is to use update-manager.
An 'update-manager -d' in a terminal or from Alt-F2. Update-manager has
specific problem solving mechanisms that dist-upgrade does not have,
your method could result in broken deps and a half upgraded machine.

Dave






More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list