[11.04]-Turn Off Unity & Use Classic Gnome?

[Alan Pope]

On 15 February 2011 16:22, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh really? With the update manager? I thought that was expressly
> forbidden.

No, not using update manager.

> Or are you talking about leaping in with editing
> sources.list and doing an apt-get dist-upgrade?

Yup. Whilst it's not recommended, it's certainly _a_  supported way to
upgrade releases.

> I've comprehensively
> broken a Debian 5 box with that approach in recent months and would be
> loath to try again, frankly.
>

This is where VMs come in handy :)

> Sort of goes without saying, really. :¬)
>

Well, indeed, but some people still need it spelling out.

There's also an experimental option for do-release-upgrade which is
supposed to let you upgrade using an overlay filesystem. In the event
it all goes horribly wrong you roll it back. Never tried it, but would
like to.

Cheers,
Al.