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Has anyone tried to dist-upgrade? Does it work well? Around the time I was a Ubuntu user (around Hardy 8.04), dist-upgrade would usually break your box and was
by babarock 14y ago
Has anyone tried to dist-upgrade? Does it work well?
Around the time I was a Ubuntu user (around Hardy 8.04), dist-upgrade would usually break your box and was discouraged by Canonical themselves. If I recall correctly.
- graywh 14y agodist-upgrade won't upgrade you to the next release, just updates your current release. You want do-release-upgrade. And I've never had a problem with dist-upgrade. http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2010/02/dist-upgrade-misnomer-confusion.html http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2010/02/dist-upgra...
- babarock 14y agoTrue, mea culpa. I meant to talk about do-release-upgrade. It's been so long I'm a little confused with the terminology :) Seamless release upgrade is crucial if you want to have a high frequency (6 month) release cycle. Glad to see they made progress with this.
- jsight 14y agosudo do-release-upgrade It's generally better than dist-upgrade anyway.
- CaioAlonso 14y agoI heard they did a lot of testing with dist-upgrades from 11.10, 11.04 and even 10.10. But doing a backup wouldn't hurt, right?
- tebeka 14y agoI did an upgrade from 11.10 to the 12.04 beta. Seems to work fine.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoSame, just a few days ago. Worked perfectly, no hitches, and 12.04 (even the beta) is noticeably superior to 11.10. My laptop battery life jumped from 4.5hrs to 7, kernel panics with too many Chrome tabs open and/or Flash playing are a thing of the past, etc. One of the best upgrades I've ever done.
- taubos 14y agoWorked fine for me