Howto Upgrade Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy Eft
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If you already have Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS installed, and you're kinda lazy to perfom a fresh installation of Ubuntu Edgy Eft, you can perform distribution upgrade from your Dapper Drake installations to Edgy Eft.
Here's a quick way to do it :
Goto terminal ( From Desktop, goto Applications->Accessories->Terminal )
user@desktop:~$ sudo sed -e 's/dapper/ edgy/g'
-i /etc/apt/sources.list
user@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
user@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Then lay back while your distro upgrades itself.
Note: My X won't start after upgrading from Xubuntu Dapper to it's Edgy Eft counterpart. I fix it by doing "sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop".
Updates (from Xubuntu website):
Xubuntu 6.10 has not yet officially been released, but you can already download the final stable .iso image here. Be aware though, that there may be some problems upgrading from the Dapper Drake version when using update-manager.
Similarly, if you use the default Ubuntu installation with GNOME, you may want to use "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" *IF* your X won't start after upgrading (might not affect you, btw).
Happy upgrading!
(thanks to johnny)
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October 27th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
While upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10 is relatively pain-free, the same couldn’t be said about Xubuntu. Indeed, the Xubuntu website warns that upgrading may not work, unless one does a fresh install.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:58 am
shouldn’t it better be something like this?
sudo sed -e ’s/dapper/ edgy/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list
October 30th, 2006 at 1:56 am
ah yes, sorry for the typo, it should be /etc/apt/sources.list
October 30th, 2006 at 2:32 am
and dapper instead of sdapper ;)
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September 19th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Thanks for the article.. and it works fine.
But I just want to leave a little note to all the people who are going to do it.
Make sure you are near the PC when the installation is going on. And make sure no applications are running.
Reason: Well, I started the download the left my Laptop on for the rest of the night to finish up.. but when I returned in the morning, It had stopped halfway and asking for “yes” or “no” to upgrade some particular package.
Reason 2 : While “grunting” i had to work with the machine.. specially “email” when the installation was going on. And it DID NOT upgrade my evolution since I was using it at the time.
Other than that., very thing else went smoothly.
Thanks
September 19th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Thanks for the extra reminder Roshan!