[ale] Ubuntu help

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 00:44:23 EST 2009


Wow. That is ridiculous.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Strangely, dist-upgrade isn't a supported upgrade method between
> versions of Ubuntu. My understanding is that apt wasn't able to smoothly
> handle all of the changes from one distribution to another, so they
> built their own tools- update-manager for the desktop and
> do-release-upgrade for the server.
>
> -Brian


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