Re: Dapper to Edy upgrade successful

John DeCarlo wrote:
On 10/29/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29/10/06, H.S. <hs.samix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I upgraded Dapper to Edgy on a Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop. It went quite
smoothly. I just changed "dapper" with "edgy" in /etc/apt/sources.list
file and did 'sudo apt-get update' and then 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'.

Just a note that this is not guaranteed to work.

From the Ubuntu-Dev mailing list, discussing the causes of problems
with upgrading:

* Using apt-get dist-upgrade rather than upgrade-manager
- Could this be reduced by emphaising on the release notes, on
ubuntu.com and in the support channels, the correct way to upgrade?


Doesn't the upgrade manager simply call apt-get or aptitude, which in
turn call dpkg as part of their function?

I have read on the ubuntu forum that aptitude is recommended over
apt-get because it is better with dependency issues. dselect is also
better. Finally, dpkg can get you out of jams when a package wants to
overwrite files owned bye another package.

Art Edwards

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