Upgrade to Dapper from Breezy without a CD?

[wildscribe]

Hi Folks,

I have been using Kubuntu 5.10 (breezy) for almost a year and it works great. It is my desktop workstation as well as serving as a web development test server with Apache, MySql and PHP.

Now, I am feeling adventurous and want to upgrade to 6.06 (dapper). I know I can download the 6.06 ISO and burn it to a CD and install. But I am wondering if there is a way from the command line, like apt-get, that I can use to upgrade the machine to 6.06. Is there a way to upgrade without a CD?

And, yes, I do plan to back up everything before I upgrade.

All the best,

Wild

[sky]

Re: Upgrade to Dapper from Breezy without a CD?

hi,

Yes, there's an easy way
Open the apt config file and change all keyword breezy by dapper

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

When you've modify all the "breezy" keyword by "dapper" just save the file

Then update the list of update possible and make a dist-upgrade to upgrade to dapper...

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

Don't forget to backup all your datas first, in case you will get into trouble... Anyway for me it was always smooth

Cheers

[wildscribe]

Re: Upgrade to Dapper from Breezy without a CD?

Thank you for the advice and instructions.

I just tried to upgrade and I got all sorts of error messages. It was asking for the CD and I don't have a Dapper CD. I think the problem is I have too many programs installed and it got confused.

Fortunately, I did back everything up. I am going to download the Dapper ISO and install it by CD.

- - - Wild

[sky]

Re: Upgrade to Dapper from Breezy without a CD?

In fact, you don't really need, you can comment the first line with is containing the path to cdrom...
Open it like first time and add a # in front the line about the cd.
then restart the staff about apt-get update...

Hope it helps.