Upgrading From Ubuntu 8.04 To Ubuntu 8.10

by on Oct 30, 2008 | 1 comment

At the present time I’m trying to upgrade my Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 but the servers holding the files are getting slammed right now (first day of release – it’s expected).

You can upgrade your Ubuntu 100% from the internet just by clicking a few options and letting the update manager do its thing. See video below for details – it’s super-easy (but takes forever at present because everybody is trying to download it right now).

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  • marc

    In Ubuntu you can’t use a torrent to run a direct upgrade, which downloads individual packages and installs them much like it does updates.

    To do the upgrade, I pressed Alt-F2 and typed:

    update-manager -d

    This was at 9:30 this morning. Because the servers were swamped the download (1307 packages in my case) was pretty slow. That and installation took about three and a half hours.

    As always, the upgrade lets you decide if you want new versions of some packages. That requires a little interaction. I had to re-enable a few software channels, reset my desktop wallpaper to full screen, and delete the old shutdown icon in the task bar (there’s a new and improved one) once it was all done. That’s it. Everything works fine.

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