Help upgrading to 10.10

[Tom H]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 14/10/2010 19:54, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Marius Gedminas<marius at pov.lt>  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:22:12PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>>> . Boot into recovery mode and choose netroot
>>>>
>>>> . Make sure that update-manager-core is installed
>>>>
>>>> . Make sure that you have "prompt=normal" in
>>>> "/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades"
>>>>
>>>> . Run "do-release-upgrade --mode desktop" (I'm assuming that you are
>>>> upgrading a desktop and not a server install)
>>>>
>>> What does --mode desktop do, exactly?
>>>
>>> I upgraded my netbook from 10.04 to 10.10 using simply sudo
>>> do-release-upgrade, without booting into recovery mode, and without
>>> --mode desktop.  It seems to work fine.
>>>
>> I've answered the "--mode..." issue in reply to Jordon.
>>
>> Just because you like to live dangerously doesn't mean that I have to
>> advise anyone to do so. I prefer to do important upgrades in
>> single-user mode, especially if X and the DE are being upgraded.
>
> You know, all this is getting hairier and hairier.
>
> Why can't there be a STABLE or at least a well publicised way of doing
> such things?
>
> I am not going over some of the responses to questions about how to
> upgrade to 10.10 posted here over the past week.
>
> But, frankly, to a new comer (a 'newbie') the responses are simply
> mind-boggling :'( .

I don't see what your problem is.

The OP asked how he could upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 at the CLI and I answered.

Jordon objected to some extra typing and Marius objected to being careful/unixy.

That's it.