Upgrading

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My entire Linux experience has been installing the new version. I
> have version 8.05 on my computer and for a learning experience I would
> like to upgrade it to 8.10. How do you do this? I use sudo aptitiude
> upgrade all the time to upgrade the current system. How do I get it to
> upgrade to another version?

At the cli and if you were going from 9.10 to 10.04:
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
$ sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop
but I think that "do-release-upgrade" (and its GUI equivalent) will
upgrade you to the latest version not from one old (albeit an LTS one)
to another old version.

You should be able to upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 with the above
though. I would not feel comfortable doing so on a desktop though; on
a server, possibly, although I have spent the weekend upgrading some
servers from 8.04 and 9.04 to 10.04 by rebuilding the OS from scratch.

You could upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 with aptitude too but it is not a
one-step process.