Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu upgrade dapper->hardy not going smoot…

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu upgrade dapper->hardy not going smoothly

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On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:11 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> I have Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on a laptop that has not seen much use for over a year.
> Trying to do a LTS->LTS upgrade I am getting stuck.
> Initially I had to have a few goes at doing the initial download part
> of the dist-upgrade due to server timeouts. When the files were all
> downloaded, I saw:
>


When you say "dist-upgrade" you mean "do-release-upgrade" don't you? :)

General consensus is that doing release upgrades on Ubuntu you don't
just edit sources and run dist-upgrade.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes

Cheers,
Al.