[Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Thu Mar 26 15:32:59 CDT 2009


I meant to add that I have used that too with the same results.

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:27 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy
> 
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Nathan C. Smith 
> <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can run apt-get update but when I do apt-get dist-upgrade 
> it switches some of the prerequists-sources.list back to 
> us.archive....
> >
> 
> by the way, there's a "better" way to upgrade... use 
> do-release-upgrade
> 
> It does the apt-get stuff for you and has special rules built in that
> helps it handle some of the odd cases where apt-get asks you a
> thousand questions or fights with dependencies. This is the command
> line equiv of
> 
> update-manager --dist-upgrade
> 
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