[ale] Ubuntu help

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 22:14:58 EST 2009


2009/1/25 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>:
> Officially speaking, Ubuntu's upgrading infrastructure only supports
> upgrading from one release to the next immediate release...

I call BS on that. Ubuntu is derivative of Debian. Unless they have
royally screwed up apt, then editing the sources.list and doing
`apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade` will upgrade any older
version to any newer version.


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