upgrading to ubuntu 9.10

brian_rbk · 17-10-2009 06:06PM #1

Hi,
I'm thinking of trying the alpha release (upgrading from 9.04). Just wondering if I can easily upgrade to the full stable release from the alpha one?

Brian

BopNiblets · 17-10-2009 07:47PM

Try in terminal or Alt+F2:
update-manager -d
or
do-release-upgrade

FruitLover · 17-10-2009 07:54PM

brian_rbk wrote: »

Just wondering if I can easily upgrade to the full stable release from the alpha one?

Yes.

Orion · 18-10-2009 12:18AM

I don't do upgrades myself - bad experience with them. Technically they should work but last time I tried it it went very pear-shaped. I won't be doing it again.

I prefer to just install fresh. If you have partitioned properly it's easy. I've an 8Gb boot partition and a 4gb swap. The rest is in /home. So I can reinstall in /boot without destroying data in /home.

ARGINITE · 18-10-2009 02:04AM

Very easy, very straight forward.

I upgraded while it was in alpha 5, it's in beta now. Not 100% finished just yet though. Still very usable though.

20-10-2009 12:15PM

I've had 2 crashes with the beta so far but they seem to be quite isolated incidents. That said, the full release is only around the corner so I don't know if there is much point upgrading before then.

22nd - RC.
29th - Final.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule

An Fear Aniar · 20-10-2009 05:01PM

I usually upgrade after Alpha 5 and then just keep updating normally every day - I never get any major issues.

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Mathiasb · 23-10-2009 06:45PM

FWIW - the more often you update when using alpha/beta/rc releases, the less breakage usually. I'd imagine that Alpha 5 > RC wouldn't be as smooth, but it might work anyway.

brian_rbk · 23-10-2009 07:53PM

great stuff, i presume the best way to keep updated to the latest release is to hit alt-f2 and run update-manager -d ?

Dartz · 24-10-2009 12:13AM

I just fresh-installed the 64-bit RC version on my laptop. No problems... except for the same shutdown bug as 9.04, but that was easy to deal with. Everything else works out of the box... including the media buttons (which was a surprise).

No driver problems whatsoever. It just works.... nvidia driver just slotted into place. Nothing else went wrong. It was easier than Windows 7 Pro' on Wednesday which hated my GPU drivers.

Biggest problem otherwise was compiling HandBrake again.... I used the older source I already had... which doesn't like the newest gtk versions... but using the newest sources worked.

Mathiasb · 24-10-2009 11:21AM

Dartz wrote: »

I just fresh-installed the 64-bit RC version on my laptop. No problems... except for the same shutdown bug as 9.04, but that was easy to deal with. Everything else works out of the box... including the media buttons (which was a surprise).

No driver problems whatsoever. It just works.... nvidia driver just slotted into place. Nothing else went wrong. It was easier than Windows 7 Pro' on Wednesday which hated my GPU drivers.

Biggest problem otherwise was compiling HandBrake again.... I used the older source I already had... which doesn't like the newest gtk versions... but using the newest sources worked.

Won't the .deb handbrake packages for 9.04 work from 9.10?

Dartz · 24-10-2009 01:21PM

No actually.

There's a change in gtk it seems over the last couple of months that causes them to fail. To get it working I had to build from the latest snapshot off of subversion.

Not actually that difficult.... considering it's the way they suggest doing it anyway.

upgrading to ubuntu 9.10

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