Comments on: Feisty is Feest

By: Rémi Cardona

Rémi Cardona — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not an Ubuntu user, but I’ve read there’s an update tool available instead of just editing sources.list and it’ll run some grepmagic on changed configuration files …

Just FYI, but I don’t know much more.

Cheers

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thirst, the update manager (atm there is no cli alternative for this)
And second: there is no direct update from dapper to feisty available...you have to update to edgy first.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

By: jenn

jenn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

"Thirst, the update manager (atm there is no cli alternative for this)"

Yes there is, from 6.06 Edgy Eft upwards from the link you provided. I wonder if it differs from upgrade-manager in terms of problem solving though, so I would stick with that or the Kubuntu equivalent if you have X installed. The old Debian standby of dist-upgrade is definitely not recommended at all....

"
Network upgrade for Ubuntu servers (recommended)

If you run an Ubuntu server, you should use the new server upgrade system.

Install update-manager-core:

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

Launch the upgrade tool:

sudo do-release-upgrade

Follow the on-screen instructions
"

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As pointed out be several others, using update-manager-core is the way to go. It worked wonderfully for me, better than a few dist-upgrades I had done on Debian. Anyway, as the Ubuntu upgrade page clearly states that dist-upgrade is not soupported I wonder why you tried anyway…

By: Gilles Dartiguelongue

Gilles Dartiguelongue — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

even though dist-upgrade is not the supported way, I’ve updated my sister’s computer ever since I installed ubuntu on it (5.10) with the update-manager and I never ever had it to upgrade succesfully. Always had to finish the job by hand because for whatever reason it failed in the middle of the process.

By: Daniel Lin

Daniel Lin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Update Manager would have been the right way to go. It does things that a plain dist-upgrade doesn’t; sanely migrating your /etc/inittab etc. to the new init system is one of them.

And even in Debian-land, directly upgrading from Woody to Etch isn’t supported. I think Dapper to Feisty is supported, but only with update-manager.

By: Ronald S. Bultje

Ronald S. Bultje — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s interesting how many people know about this so-called update-manager tool, even though it wasn’t installed, it wasn’t visible on my Dapper desktop, and there was no way for me to know in advance that it was the way to go. If dist-upgrade is not supported, it should have been disabled with a pointer to upgrade-manager in the error message.

Let’s not get me started on needing edgy in between…

By: Kris Marsh

Kris Marsh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Ronald,

Because both Edgy and Feisty are not LTS (Long Term Support) distros, there is no automated upgrade notification. If you wait(ed) for the next LTS version, you will see an upgrade notification in your Dapper notification tray.

Update Manager is available from System->Administration->Update Manager

To get to Edgy from Dapper, you will need to invoke update-manager manually:
- Ctrl+F2.
- gksudo 'update-manager -c -d'

You will then see the little update icon in your notification tray. Clicking this will show you the update manager, and give you the opportunity to upgrade to Feisty.

HTH
Kris

By: Holger

Holger — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

No. dist-upgrade should not be disabled. There are people that know what they are doing and they still use this method.

By: Holger

Holger — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Check out this iSight patch which spawned meanwhile and aswell includes Firmware loading using the Kernel interface.

http://i-nz.net/projects/linux-kernel/

The only thing that bothers me is that no iSight support has made it upstream yet...