Comments on: Upgrading From Ubuntu 8.04 To Ubuntu 8.10 http://www.pcmech.com/article/upgrading-from-ubuntu-804-to-ubuntu-810/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:17:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: marc http://www.pcmech.com/article/upgrading-from-ubuntu-804-to-ubuntu-810/comment-page-1/#comment-16238 marc Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:50:10 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=8345#comment-16238 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. 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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