Update fails

[william drescher]

On 4/22/2010 3:54 PM, sdavmor wrote:
> On 04/22/2010 03:29 AM, william drescher wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>> Do the whole thing in a terminal and see if it works better :-)
>>>
>>> $ sudo aptitude update
>>>
>>> then
>>>
>>> $ sudo apptiude upgrade
>>>
>>> Please report back if this works for you ;-)
>>>
>>> 73 Karl
>>
>> I started with 9.04, and did as you suggested. All went without
>> apparent error, a new kernel was installed. At reboot it still
>> reports 9.04, I expected 9.10
>>
>> ?
>>
>> bill
>
> Ah hah. The mistake you are making, Bill, is in thinking that kernel
> level = ubuntu release level. Updates will notify you of a new kernel
> that will work with your Ubuntu release level.
>
> If you want to do a release level upgrade that's a different issue
> entirely. You could do it via terminal:
>
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Or you could do it from gui:
>
> 1) Alt-F2 (to get a "Run" box)
> 2) update-manager -d
>
> Update manager will do it's thing. You'll be told that there's a
> distribution upgrade available (new release 10.04). Which you can then
> launch. It will take a while. I suggest backing up anything that is
> deadly important first. Just in case.
>
> HTH.


Thanks, I did not appreciate the difference between upgrade and 
dist-upgrade.

However, when I do this (cli - this is the server version) it 
says 0 upgraded

bill