I've done what the Ubuntu website says and gone to system > admin > update manager and installed the last batch of updates but it doesn't mention anything about the new version when I click on 'upgrade' again. Am I a) being a bit impatient or b) is there another (simple!) way round this? Oh yes, and is there anything important I need to do, that I have forgotten, before upgrading? Thanks. Bev.
On 24 Apr 16:53, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I've done what the Ubuntu website says and gone to system > admin > update manager and installed the last batch of updates but it doesn't mention anything about the new version when I click on 'upgrade' again. Am I a) being a bit impatient or b) is there another (simple!) way round this?
I assume that you're following the destructions at:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#head-db224ea9add28760e373240f8239a...
?
And that you've done the update-manager -d shuffle, and enabled the dapper-updates channel?
Oh yes, and is there anything important I need to do, that I have forgotten, before upgrading? Thanks.
Backups.
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:53:33 +0100 "Bev Nicolson" bnicolson@operamail.com allegedly wrote:
I've done what the Ubuntu website says and gone to system > admin > update manager and installed the last batch of updates but it doesn't mention anything about the new version when I click on 'upgrade' again. Am I a) being a bit impatient or b) is there another (simple!) way round this?
I guess the sites are quite busy at the moment.
Personally I'd wait a week or three before upgrading unless you have a really pressing need. There are bound to be some problems which have not been caught at the alpha and beta stages.
Oh yes, and is there anything important I need to do, that I have forgotten, before upgrading? Thanks. Bev.
Backups???
Mick
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On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:41 +0100, mbm wrote:
Personally I'd wait a week or three before upgrading unless you have a really pressing need. There are bound to be some problems which have not been caught at the alpha and beta stages.
Yes and I think that is even more relevant for a LTS-LTS upgrade. Most LTS machines I suspect are boxes that people don't touch until they are broken or are "important" machines. Therefore it is unlikely that many people outside ubuntu have tried upgrading them to the pre-releases.
The sensible thing to do, unless you like tinkering is give it at least a few weeks and then scan the ubuntu forums for people having problems. See if those problems have any relevance to you (i.e some functionality you depend on is lost, or their hardware is similar to yours) then do the upgrade informed of what (if anything) is likely to break.
Having said that, I have been running Hardy for a few weeks now and aside from some problems with audio which seem to have mostly been fixed now, everything is working quite well. However for a couple of LTS boxes I am responsible for I am waiting a bit.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
Having said that, I have been running Hardy for a few weeks now and aside from some problems with audio which seem to have mostly been fixed now, everything is working quite well. However for a couple of LTS boxes I am responsible for I am waiting a bit.
It was all going so well, and then I found a problem with g++ v4.2.3, the optimiser and the STL. One of my colleagues found the problem in an early beta of Hardy, and it's still there in release.
Anyone else?
Tim.
2008/4/27 Tim Green timothy.j.green@gmail.com:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
Having said that, I have been running Hardy for a few weeks now and aside from some problems with audio which seem to have mostly been fixed now, everything is working quite well. However for a couple of LTS boxes I am responsible for I am waiting a bit.
It was all going so well, and then I found a problem with g++ v4.2.3, the optimiser and the STL. One of my colleagues found the problem in an early beta of Hardy, and it's still there in release.
Someone in the office changed a bit of C++ somewhere, and now it compiles. *shrug*
My next problem is DVD playback. Upgrading from 7.10 seemed to trash the previously installed DVD CSS library, which I has taken me since April to notice because the stand-alone DVD recorder under my TV makes un-encoded discs.
Solution: Add the Medibuntu repository following the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
Hope this helps! Tim.
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:53 +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I've done what the Ubuntu website says and gone to system > admin > update manager and installed the last batch of updates but it doesn't mention anything about the new version when I click on 'upgrade' again. Am I a) being a bit impatient or b) is there another (simple!) way round this? Oh yes, and is there anything important I need to do, that I have forgotten, before upgrading?
Backup ?
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