Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:31:25PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
> > From: Jochen Schulz [mailto:ml@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...
-Rob
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