How easy OS upgrades should be

I just upgraded my slice from running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon to the newly released Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

The upgrade process:

  1. Login machine
  2. Execute the command “sudo do-release-upgrade”
  3. Answer a few “Do you want to keep this older file or use this new file?” questions.
  4. Done!

File this one under “That was easy.”

Posted in geekery at April 28th, 2008. Trackback URI: trackback
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  • http://www.acts-as-blogr.com Brent

    What made you decide to upgrade your Slice? I guess I just don’t see the point of upgrading an Ubuntu machine that’s only used via a terminal. I also recently upgraded to Hardy Heron, but that was on my desktop machine and I pretty much only did it for the gui updates.

  • http:/blog.notedpath.com Theo

    Hey, Brent! I was just curious of the process mainly. I had never used the update-manager-core before. That and Slicehost will probably start doing their Ubuntu tutorials from Hardy. They already have an article on installing mod_rails under Hardy (http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/5/1/ubuntu-hardy-using-mod_rails-to-serve-your-application). These tutorials will probably still work for older versions but it’s nice to know you are starting from the same point before going into the unknown. :)