Upgrading from 10.04.1 to Maverick 10.10

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/10/2010 21:54, Mark Widdicombe wrote:
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Basil Chupin [blchupin at iinet.net.au]
> Sent: 13 October 2010 12:41 PM
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>>> 100MB is quite a lot if you live in the third world where bandwidth is expensive.  Would it be more efficient to download the 700MB iso for the OS, then download and reinstall all the extra apps, or upgrade?  Can't say unless you know which extra apps, but is there a way of finding out in advance?  For example, I have quite a few apps that aren't included in the distro, but I can't tell how much difference the upgrade vs reinstall options will make.  (Actually, it's of academic interest to me at the moment because I won't be upgrading or reinstalling until the next LTS (Putrid Panda?))
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>> Well, if you run Update Manager it will give you the details you are
>> asking about (as far as I am aware - but I haven't bothered to click on
>> he DETAILS option). Try it for yourself and see.
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> Not really.  It will give the size of upgrade including all the upgrades required for installed apps, but it won't
> give the *difference* between upgrading and reinstalling.  To get that, I suppose one would have to look at
> the size of the upgrade and compare that to the size of the ISO plus the download size of each app plus a
> bit for upgrading packages after install.
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I don't think that I thought that it would give you such details.

I already gave you in my original post of what happened when I 
downloaded the CD of 10.10 and did a fresh installed as opposed to when 
I tried to use Update Manager on an existing 10.04.1 installation. I 
cannot give any more "in depth" information than that. I would have 
thought that what I wrote would provide some sort of a benchmark from 
which most people could work out what would apply in their own situation.

BC

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