upgrade with aptitude ?

[Tony Arnold]

Pierre,

On 05/07/11 09:10, Pierre Meurisse wrote:

> I'm managing 12 machines in a school, with ubuntu 10.10. I have to upgrade to
> 11.04.
> 
> I would like to know if I can do that with aptitude from my home (I have
> ssh-access to every machine).  I would replace every occurence of
> 'maverick' with 'natty' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then run aptitude.

The command do-release-upgrade is designed to do exactly what you want!

Regards,
Tony.
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