Upgrading from 8.04 KDE4 to 8.10 using CDROM

[wanderer]

Hi

I have an installation of 8.04 KDE4 and i'd like to upgrade to 8.10 from the CDROM i just downloaded. I tried the following commands:

sudo apt-cdrom add
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

No luck though.

The cdrom seems to have been added successfully, although a couple of interesting messages appear:

Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/               
Unmounting CD-ROM                       
<snip>
W: Skipping non-exisiting file /cdrom/dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Packages                                      
W: Skipping non-exisiting file /cdrom/dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages

the update command returns:

Ign cdrom://Kubuntu 8.10 _Intrepid Ibex_ - Release i386 (20081029.1) intrepid/main Translation-en_US                           
Ign cdrom://Kubuntu 8.10 _Intrepid Ibex_ - Release i386 (20081029.1) intrepid/restricted Translation-en_US                        
Ign [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] hardy Release.gpg
<blah blah...>

And the output of the dist-upgrade command is the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I'm using the normal CD (not the alternate). Am i doing anything wrong? Is a CDROM dist upgrade possible or not?

Thanx.

[toad]

Re: Upgrading from 8.04 KDE4 to 8.10 using CDROM

Good question! I've never heard of anyone trying it before and I cannot get rid of the quesion - why? AFAICS you will not be able to upgrade any non-standard packages. So if you have added anything after you install 8.04 it will remain "old".

Here the second line of my /etc/apt/sources.list:
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to newer versions of the distribution.

But I am sure you have done that

As for tying in your downloaded CD, I'd go a different route and add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 8.10 _Intrepid Ibex_ - Release i386 (20081029.1)]/ intrepid main restricted

Now for the old

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And what does it say?

[wanderer]

Re: Upgrading from 8.04 KDE4 to 8.10 using CDROM

Aha...

By default Ubuntu 8.04 LTS will not offer a upgrade to 8.10. This is because the 8.04 LTS version is a long term support release and 8.10 is a regular release.

kdesu "adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel"

That seems to do something!

I'll try it and see what happens...

Thanx for the info

[wanderer]

Re: Upgrading from 8.04 KDE4 to 8.10 using CDROM

Hmmm, i think i understand better now how it works. I have downloaded the live CD and it seems the upgrade can only be done from the alternate cd. The method i mention above seems to try to download all the files, not read them from the cd.

I guess i'll have to download the alternate cd and try again.