[ale] Kubuntu edgy 6.10 released

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Oct 31 14:28:19 EST 2006


I'm testing it now.  I installed 6.06 on this system a week ago.  I also
used Automatix to install Nvida drivers.  My only doubts will be the
Nvidia drivers working after upgrade.  I may have to run automatx2 again
and resintall those.  we'll see.

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:40 -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
>   You change "dapper" to "edgy" in the sources.list then do a "apt-get
> update; apt-get dist-upgrade".  It might be easier to just use 
> "update-manager -d" which does the edit and upgrade for you, at least on
> the main ubuntu sites.
> 
>   It should remove/overwrite older libraries just like upgrading any
> other packages.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thus spake Christopher Fowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 20:45 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > I've heard, not sure where, that upgrading from Dapper to Edgy can be a
> > > pain.  Be forewarned. ;-)
> > > 
> > 
> > What about from a recent install?  I saw somewhere that I needed to
> > change something in the repositories file and do an "upgrade".  
> > 
> > My only question is about disk usage.  For example does an upgrade
> > remove older versions of the same library?  
> > 
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