[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu upgrade question

[Emanuel R]

Thank you all for your helpful input.
Emanuel


Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:03:44AM -0700, Emanuel R wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> Just an question about an upgrade if I may.
>> I am currently using Ubuntu 7.10 and would like to upgrade to a more
>> recent version, definitely LTS this time.
>> It is suggested to do all the updates before a version upgrade. However,
>> I apparently missed the deadline for the 7.10 repository support and now
>> I am not able to download the latest software updates for 7.10.
>>
>> Since I haven't been able to find other repositories for that version, I
>> am wondering how critical it is to install all the updates first before
>> upgrading?
>>
>> I welcome any comments and suggestions. I am fairly new to Linux and
>> don't really want to switch back to Windows full time.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Emanuel
>>
>>     
>
> If you want to go to 9.04 I'd recommend doing incremental upgrades to the
> versions in between. Canonical does tests for upgrades for each release (ie
> 8.10->9.04), and between LTS releases (ie. 8.04->10.04 [when it comes
> out]), but not necessarily for every release in between so you may or may
> not run into problems trying to go from 7.10 directly to 9.04. If possible
> the best route would be to do a reinstall after backing up critical files.
> Barring that I'd say you should go 7.10->8.04->8.10->9.04.  Like I said, it
> might work to go straight from 7.10->9.04 but you might also run into
> problems.
>
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