On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:31:25PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Jochen Schulz [mailto:m...@well-adjusted.de] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:42 AM > > Subject: Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu? > [snip] > > And I think (without being sure) that you can always upgrade from one > > Ubuntu LTS release to the next, skipping the intermediate non-LTS > > releases. > > This is correct. See here: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades > > "You can directly upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ('Hardy Heron') from Ubuntu > 7.10 ('Gutsy Gibbon') or from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ('Dapper Drake')" > > As I understand it Ubuntu's upgrade path is: > 1) LTS->LTS > 2) Incremintal->next incremental (and LTS only when it is the next > incremental) > > > I had to do the LTS->LTS once and it was surprisingly easy. I was > expecting much more of a fight in getting things to work again > considering the 2 year gap. There were some packages that were dropped > (various reasons) that I ended up having to research the replacements > but it was so trivial that I don't remember the details. The only one > that gave me issues was VMWare and that was a package outside of > Ubuntu's control anyway. > Good to hear you had success. Now I might try it again on the next LTS release. When I tried to upgrade from 6.06 to 8.04, I ended up with packaging conflicts that I could not resolve. After a few hours I cut my losses and did a reinstall. That happened on 2 different machines. I may have made a mistake, but I don't think I did...
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