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

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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
> 

I was just saying that installing the expect package will pull in some X 
libraries. That does not require have an X server installed. I don't 
have X on any Linux server I run.