Prompt=lts do-release-upgrade does not seem to work

Marius Gedminas marius at pov.lt
Wed May 5 12:10:18 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:24:12PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 04, 2010 07:57 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> > On 3 May 2010 20:35, Tom H<tomh0665 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> You cannot use update-manager on a server, unless you have installed X
> >> on it (in which case it is not a "real" server).
> > Explain the logic please. :)
> > There are plenty of cases where you would like to have X libraries +
> > binaries on a server (/me shakes his fist at Oracle)
> 
> X libraries yes (expect) but binaries...well...depends on your 
> environment I guess. Maybe if the samba server is also your desktop and 
> you work (hide) in the server room/'secret' room doing something else 
> like er Tremulous?

There's also ssh X forwarding.

(Not that I would dare a release upgrade over that.  ssh + screen +
do-release-upgrade -- yes, ssh -X update-manager -- scary.)

Marius Gedminas
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