Upgrade 7.04 - 7.10 >> Synaptic or Terminal ?

[mhumm2]

Which is the best way to upgrade distros, Synaptic or directly from the terminal?

mhumm2

[dibl]

Re: Upgrade 7.04 - 7.10 >> Synaptic or Terminal ?

With Kubuntu, I'd recommend Adept Manager -- use the "Dist. Upgrade" button on the menu, and be very patient and deliberate. The upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy took about an hour and downloaded over 600MB of files, if memory serves. Don't jump to the conclusion that it is "frozen", just walk away and let it do its thing.

[mhumm2]

Re: Upgrade 7.04 - 7.10 >> Synaptic or Terminal ?

Great, I'll use Adept then. Of course, before I do that, I have to solve my repository problem. Any ideas?

$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 akregator amarok amarok-xine ark celestia digikam gwenview k3b kaddressbook kaffeine kaffeine-mozilla
 kaffeine-xine kalzium kamera karm kasteroids katapult kate kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbstate kcalc kcontrol
 kcron kde-guidance kde-guidance-powermanager kde-style-polyester kde-systemsettings kdeadmin-kfile-plugins
 kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdebluetooth kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs4c2a
 kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork-filesharing kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
 kdepasswd kdepim-kio-plugins kdepim-kresources kdepim-wizards kdeprint kdesktop kdevelop kdm kdnssd keep
 kexi kfind kftpgrabber kghostview khelpcenter kicker kio-apt kio-locate kipi-plugins klipper kmag kmahjongg
 kmail kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmines kmix kmoon kmousetool kmplayer-base kmplayer-konq-plugins
 kmymoney2 knetworkconf knetworkmanager knights knotes kodo koffice-libs kolf konq-plugins konqueror
 konqueror-nsplugins konsole kontact konversation kooka kopete korganizer kpat kpdf kpf kpoker kppp kradio
 krdc krecipes krename krfb kscd kscreensaver ksensors ksirtet ksmserver ksnapshot kspaceduel ksplash
 ksplash-engine-moodin kstars ksvg ksysguard ksystemlog ktechlab ktorrent ktrack kubuntu-default-settings
 kubuntu-docs kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts kwalletmanager kwin kwin-style-crystal kworldclock kxmame
 libcvsservice0 libk3b2 libk3b2-mp3 libkbanking1 libkcal2b libkcddb1 libkdeedu3 libkdegames1 libkdepim1a
 libkexif1 libkexiv2-0 libkipi0 libkleopatra1 libkmime2 libkonq4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1
 libkscan1 libksieve0 libktnef1 libskim0 networkstatus openoffice.org-kde python-kde3 schafkopf skim
 superkaramba wlassistant
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 cryptsetup linux-headers-2.6.20-17 linux-headers-2.6.20-17-generic linux-image-2.6.20-17-generic
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-17-generic openssl-blacklist winbind
The following packages have been kept back:
 ksysguardd poppler-utils python-qt4 python-sip4
The following packages will be upgraded:
 bzip2 ca-certificates cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-common firefox gs-esp gs-esp-x
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk-qt-engine gtk2-engines-gtk-qt kdebase-data kdelibs-data language-pack-en
 language-pack-kde-en libbz2-1.0 libcdio6 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libgnutls13 libgs-esp8 libhsqldb-java
 libicu36 libiso9660-4 libkrb53 libmysqlclient15off libnspr4 libnss3 libpcre3 libpoppler1 libpoppler1-qt
 libpq5 libruby1.8 libsdl-image1.2 libsmbclient libspeex1 libssl0.9.8 linux-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-16
 linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic linux-image-generic
 linux-libc-dev linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-generic mysql-common nvidia-glx
 openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
 openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common
 openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-default
 openoffice.org-writer openssh-client openssl python-uno python2.4 python2.4-dev python2.4-minimal python2.5
 python2.5-dev python2.5-doc python2.5-examples python2.5-minimal rsync ruby1.8 samba-common smbclient
 ssl-cert ttf-opensymbol tzdata unzip vorbis-tools wine xserver-xorg-core
85 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 150 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 259MB of archives.

I don't understand why the system wants to remove all those packages. Any ideas?

[mhumm2]

Re: Upgrade 7.04 - 7.10 >> Synaptic or Terminal ? RESOLVED !!!

Thanks to everyone for weighing in. I've since upgraded (hardware dual boot) to 8.04 replacing my Windoze system completely !!!

mhumm2