[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[James Sumners]

Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, I'm going to guess that it means this:

Debian does not support a 'dist-upgrade' between versions while
skipping a version. That is, if you are running Debian Etch and try to
a dist-upgrade to Debian Squeeze[1], it will probably fail miserably
and no one will bother to help you. The supported method would be to
dist-upgrade Debian Etch => Debian Lenny => Debian Squeeze. So if
there is a release between Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.04, then you should
update to the intermediary version first.

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> One thing that confuse me is when I get this warning "Partial Upgrade
> Required".  Does this mean that updates are no longer available for
> 10.04 and I now have to go somewhere in between 10.04 and 11.04?
>
> Chris


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