On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:39 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > Hi > > Darren Mansell wrote: > > Yep update-manager hasnt worked for me a few times with Gutsy so I run: > > Strange, that's how I upgraded from feisty to gutsy months ago, but it > is possible that it's broken at the moment (it being unreleased, all > bets are off until release day). I tried it about 3 times over the past 2ish months. Hadn't worried about it because even with -d theres no guarantee of it working. > > In what way doesn't it work? Does it simply fail to offer the upgrade at > all? Did you try with -c and -d? I think it said something about failed to find current release information or something to that effect then said there are no newer releases available. > > > sudo sed -i s/feisty/gutsy/g /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get > > update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y > > This will of course work, but apt isn't the smartest piece of software > in the world, so it may remove otherwise useful things to satisfy > itself. You may want to check that you have ubuntu-desktop installed > afterwards. Yeah. I've always done it like this and had to do a couple of shimmys around things like doing apt-get -f install then remove ubuntu-desktop and reinstall ubuntu-desktop etc so its not the most ideal way to do things I agree. I forgot to add info to that effect on the post. > > There are other differences between using apt and update-manager - for > example when Ubuntu switched from OpenOffice 1 to 2, update-manager > would remove v1, but apt wouldn't (since installing the two in parallel > was possible and in some cases useful, so the packages couldn't be made > to Conflict). Ah right. Thanks for the info. > > Cheers, > -- > Chris Jones > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.canonical.com >
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