Upgrading to Non-Current Distribution

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Kenneth Jacker <khj at be.cs.appstate.edu> wrote:
>
>   cl> You will have to do this in two stages, to 11.10 then to 12.04.
>   cl> Update Manager should give you the option of going to 11.10, then it
>   cl> will give you the further option when that is complete.
>
> Note that I will most likely be doing all of this from the "command
> line", not the GUI 'Update Manager'. Guess I'll use something like
> "apt-get upgrade".
>
> But won't that go directly to the latest distribution.  Here's what the
> 'apt-get' "man page" says:
>
>        "'upgrade' is used to install the newest versions
>         of all packages currently installed ..."
>
> Wouldn't "newest versions" be the 12.10 files/packages?

Possibly (to your last question).

Upgrade Manager has a CLI equivalent, "do-release-upgrade". I don't
use either and upgrade with apt-get or aptitude. If you're going to
use the apt method, I'd advise you to follow the recommendations of
Debian release notes, even though upgrading from one Ubuntu release to
another's less stressful to the system than upgrading from one Debian
release to another.