Help upgrading to 10.10

[Tom H]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 14/10/2010 20:39, Tom H wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> And you don't see any problem with any of this?
>
> A person, a newbie, just installed 10.04, say, last month and now wants
> to upgrade to 10.10 which is available.
>
> What to do to go from 10.04 to 10.10?
>
> "Oh, gosh, I had better ask questions in ubuntu-users to get any number
> of different replies on how to do it!"
>
> "Ah! I now read that 'Jordon objected to some extra typing' and Marius
> 'objected to being careful/unixy'. Gosh, that's most informative!
> (But.....what does "unixy" mean?).
>
> How is s/he supposed to separate the chaff from the grain?
>
>> That's it.
>
> That simple, eh?
>
> Then why all the question recently about how to upgrade from earlier
> versions of Ubuntu to later versions - including upgrading to Maverick?

This thread started with: "I'm trying to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10,
and my 10.04 is totally up to date. I went to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades and read the
instructions. My problem is that I'd like to do it from the command
line because when I go to system/administration/software and I enter
my sudo password the desktop locks up."

We were specifically asked about the CLI.

I replied to Jordon about "--mode..." and didn't need to repeat myself.

I replied to Marius about using the recovery mode and didn't need to
repeat myself.

There was one discussion about dist-upgrade v/s the Ubuntu upgrade
tools that I followed and there were a few endless discussions about
upgrade-manager that I more or less skimmed because I'm not interested
in the GUI tools.

Jordon once corrected the usual bad advice of running update-manager
or do-release-upgrade with "-d" because various blogs have been
written by clueless people who don't read the man pages and who simply
repeat previously posted instructions meant for upgrading to an
alpha/beta release.

Otherwise, the procedures given on the page that the OP linked to a
clear and concise enough.