Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

[Nikolai K. Bochev]

Oh i missed the part where you say that you have rc installed. In that case just apt-get update, no need for dist-upgrade :)

Upgrading from previous releases using the update-manager/do-release-upgrade has certain benefits ( from what is visible as output ):

1. It warns you if you have low disk space needed for the upgrade.
2. It aborts if your memory is not enough to handle the upgrade.
3. It searches and removes obsolete packages that are left over from previous releases.
4. It's the "official" way of doing things, so if you go whining that you did apt-get dist-upgrade and something went poo on places like ubuntuforums.org you might get a bit of heat ( not that i think it would be a problem for you after 3-4 years of Gentoo ). For me it's sort of like the sudo argument.

----- Original Message -----
Wait, that's a guide to upgrade from 9.10. I have 10.04 release
candidate.

the Update manager indeed gives me several packages to update. Is this
the correct route from a RC to a full release too? (probably yes,
but...)

Also -isn't upgrading from synaptic / apt-get the same, and if not, why
(that is: what does the update manager do under the hood?)

thanks,
m.

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Nikolai K. Bochev 
System Administrator