about new release which will be on 10th Oct

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 09:40 -0400, Kai Presler-Marshall wrote:
> Open a terminal, then enter: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Enter your PW and tell it to download the packages

This is a fallacy unless you elaborate it.  For example, he needs to run
dist-upgrade because he manually edited /etc/apt/sources.list, but you
need to show him the proper, Debian way to do it which is:

edit /etc/apt/sources.list replace lucid with maverick
apt-get update
apt-get install apt aptitude dpkg
apt-get install linux-image
apt-get dist-upgrade

If you are on a system with a shared kernel, skip linux-image step.
It's better on Ubuntu to use do-release-upgrade, but if you're on 10.04
you'll need to edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set
Prompt=normal and then do 'sudo do-release-upgrade -d' right now, or
just 'sudo do-release-upgrade' when it's final release and no longer
development.