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upgrading an existing installationupgrading an existing installationPosted Sep 9, 2005 16:43 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)Parent article: Ubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy") preview released
can i change my apt sources to get an update over apt-get?
are there instructions for this?
is it even recommended yet?
if i press an ISO, will it play nice and upgrade my existing installation?
thanks for any answers
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upgrading an existing installation Posted Sep 9, 2005 19:03 UTC (Fri) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] Yes, you can.
No, it's not recommended yet. Unless you want to be a tester you should wait until the real release, which will happen in October.
Re: upgrading from an ISO... you could do it I think. You wouldn't boot off of it, like for a normal install. Instead you'd set your apt sources to check the CDROM, then put it into your drive and upgrade. In effect you're replacing a network download with a CDROM repository.
upgrading an existing installation Posted Sep 9, 2005 19:15 UTC (Fri) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link] It is fairly stable at present from my experience however there are still a few irritating glitches. I find it soothing to apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade every day to see all the bug fixes coming up the pike.
upgrading an existing installation Posted Sep 10, 2005 11:28 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Dependencies are the bete noire of Debian packages. Most are OK, but the GNOME packagers seem to have more trouble than most. The package for gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu breezy, for instance, doesn't list the dependency on libgtop. As a category, the Gstreamer suite has to be the worst-packaged of anything I've installed. (I don't try to install KDE, PHP, Apache, or anything Java; there could easily be worse categories I don't know about!) There's this "gst-register" command you're supposed to run after installing things, that the package scripts don't. The packages routinely omit important dependencies. The gstreamer code is probably great, but it never seems to get to a fully working state on my systems.It's not hard to understand how stuff gets away from them: ldd on gnome-system-monitor lists 68 shared libraries it uses! Rhythmbox, 64. For my own code, I get nervous when the number goes over 4, so I'll never be a GUI coder.
upgrading an existing installation Posted Sep 11, 2005 17:58 UTC (Sun) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link] I don't know about Ubuntu, but in Debian, GStreamer plugin postinst scripts definitely run gst-register.
Some repositories outside of Debian, maintained by non-DDs, don't do this. Those packages are generally legally-questionable support for non-free formats anyway.
upgrading an existing installation Posted Sep 11, 2005 19:53 UTC (Sun) by micampe (guest, #4384) [Link] Hmm... I need a linked list but I already have four dynamic libraries liked in here... better rewrite it.
upgrading an existing installation Posted Sep 10, 2005 5:18 UTC (Sat) by doclivingston (guest, #32374) [Link] You can update with apt-get over the net by changing "hoary" to "breezy" in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Ifyou insert a newer Ubuntu CD, it will ask whether you want to automatically upgrade.
upgrading an existing installation Posted Sep 11, 2005 6:27 UTC (Sun) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link] thanks, worked like a charm the first time, no issues.
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