Upgrade

[izahn]

Hi,
I upgraded to Jaunty using aptitude dist-upgrade. Now I realize that I should have used update-notifier-kde -d. Is there anyway to apply the changes performed by update-notifier-kde -d even though I already have the latest packages?

Thanks,
Ista

[dibl]

Re: Upgrade



Are you sure? The dist-upgrade function, when run from 8.10, should not yet trigger a version upgrade.

What were you running, and what exactly did you do? When you open the Konsole and enter

lsb_release -a

what does it say?

[izahn]

Re: Upgrade

I updated the sources list to the jaunty repos, and then ran

aptitude dist-upgrade

.

lsb_release -a

gives

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:  Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release:    9.04
Codename:    jaunty

So I understand that using

update-notifier-kde

would have installed the latest version, but then also performed other actions, like removing unneeded packages. So my questions are: what exactly does

update-notifier-kde

do that

aptitude dist-upgrade

doesn't, and can I somehow do those things even though I used

aptitude dist-upgrade

?

Thanks,
Ista

[flarson]

Re: Upgrade

Try aptitude install.

[dibl]

Re: Upgrade

Update-notifier is not an installer, AFAIK -- it is just there to inform you that the package manager has found later package versions in the repositories. dist-upgrade is the right way to upgrade. I prefer apt-get over aptitude, but that's a matter of taste, I suppose.

[izahn]

Re: Upgrade

dist-upgrade is the right way to upgrade

Great, thanks. I thought I read somewhere not to do it this way because the update manager performs some extra steps or something. Glad to hear that dist-upgrade is an OK way to upgrade.

Thanks!

[flarson]

Re: Upgrade

You should run
sudo aptitude install
It will pull in some extra things since the Beta release.

[flarson]

Re: Upgrade

Because of this thread I did a litle digging and the command he suggested is listed on the Ubuntu webpage and the -d is suggested for upgrading to a new dist. I am curious to know if it updates the sources.list files.

[izahn]

Re: Upgrade

sudo aptitude install didn't install any new packages, but it's possible I already did this and forgot about it. Thanks everyone for the helpful feedback.