Re: Help upgrading to 10.10

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 14/10/2010 20:39, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

On 14/10/2010 19:54, Tom H wrote:

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Marius Gedminas<marius@xxxxxx>    wrote:

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:22:12PM -0400, Tom H wrote:


. Boot into recovery mode and choose netroot

. Make sure that update-manager-core is installed

. Make sure that you have "prompt=normal" in
"/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades"

. Run "do-release-upgrade --mode desktop" (I'm assuming that you are
upgrading a desktop and not a server install)


What does --mode desktop do, exactly?

I upgraded my netbook from 10.04 to 10.10 using simply sudo
do-release-upgrade, without booting into recovery mode, and without
--mode desktop.  It seems to work fine.


I've answered the "--mode..." issue in reply to Jordon.

Just because you like to live dangerously doesn't mean that I have to
advise anyone to do so. I prefer to do important upgrades in
single-user mode, especially if X and the DE are being upgraded.

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.


And you don't see any problem with any of this?

A person, a newbie, just installed 10.04, say, last month and now wants
to upgrade to 10.10 which is available.

What to do to go from 10.04 to 10.10?

"Oh, gosh, I had better ask questions in ubuntu-users to get any number
of different replies on how to do it!"

"Ah! I now read that 'Jordon objected to some extra typing' and Marius
'objected to being careful/unixy'. Gosh, that's most informative!
(But.....what does "unixy" mean?).

How is s/he supposed to separate the chaff from the grain?

That's it.

That simple, eh?

Then why all the question recently about how to upgrade from earlier
versions of Ubuntu to later versions - including upgrading to Maverick?

This thread started with: "I'm trying to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10,
and my 10.04 is totally up to date. I went to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades and read the
instructions. My problem is that I'd like to do it from the command
line because when I go to system/administration/software and I enter
my sudo password the desktop locks up."

We were specifically asked about the CLI.

I replied to Jordon about "--mode..." and didn't need to repeat myself.

I replied to Marius about using the recovery mode and didn't need to
repeat myself.

There was one discussion about dist-upgrade v/s the Ubuntu upgrade
tools that I followed and there were a few endless discussions about
upgrade-manager that I more or less skimmed because I'm not interested
in the GUI tools.

Jordon once corrected the usual bad advice of running update-manager
or do-release-upgrade with "-d" because various blogs have been
written by clueless people who don't read the man pages and who simply
repeat previously posted instructions meant for upgrading to an
alpha/beta release.

Otherwise, the procedures given on the page that the OP linked to a
clear and concise enough.

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