Ubuntu upgrades (was Re:"NVidia is great!" - Umm, no?)

[Giles Orr]

On 8/31/07, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Which are you using, apt-get or aptitude?
>
> adept-updater, which is the recommended tool for Kubuntu.

As Lennart says, Debian upgrades extremely well: I have a couple of
systems several years old that I've upgraded repeatedly without major
issues (a couple minor ones - generally very minor).

My laptop runs Ubuntu.  Because my first step after installing Ubuntu
was to remove the main part of GNOME and NOT install KDE, the
graphical installer refuses to work: you have to have a desktop it
understands.  I'm forced to use the CLI, so I do it exactly the same
way I upgrade Debian.  Which is fine with me.  I think I've upgraded
the laptop's Ubuntu three times since its initial install - again,
without major incident.  You may want to consider the possibility that
adept-updater doesn't do nearly as good a job as "${EDITOR}
/etc/apt/sources.list && aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade".

No, it's not GUI, and I'd guess this isn't the solution you were
looking for, but I thought I would mention it as a possibility if you
prefer to stay with Ubuntu.

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