Help upgrading to 10.10

[Tom H]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 05:39 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
> I have to agree with Basil, it's not clear that there is one official
> way of upgrading, and it got me confused during the reading of it.

I don't see what's confusing about the official documentation on
help.ubuntu.com. The official way to upgrade a desktop install from
10.04 to 10.10 is to use the GUI: run "alt-f2", launch
"update-manager", click on "settings", change "lts releases only" to
"normal releases", click on "close", click on "check", click on
"upgrade".