Upgrading

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Sun, 02 May 2010 15:20:17 -0400
steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Tom H wrote:
> > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:01 PM, steve reilly
> > <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> >> Karl Larsen 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?
> >> Ive always used sudo update-manager -d
> >>
> >> the d switch has update-manager look for new distributions. their
> >> are other ways to do this, see here
> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
> > 
> > For the who-knows-what-time, "-d" upgrades you to the latest
> > development release!
> > 
> 
> point taken. correction..  use -c for a release upgrade.
> 
> 
> steve
> 
> 
Or:
update-manager --dist-upgrade
to actually /do/ it instead of just checking.

Cybe R. Wizard
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