Am 20. Apr, 2007 schwätzte Josh Coffman so:

>    Anyone have opinions on upgrading versus new install of fiesty? I normally just do an install, but then I have an hour of tweaks to get things where I want them.

You should do upgrades for debian-based distributions. They have worked
well for years. A debian-based distro that releases something that doesn't
upgrade well should be severely chastised.

There will be some boxes that have difficult hardware that might
experience problems. Those same boxes would probably also have problems
with new installs.

If you've been installing a lot of packages outside the package management
system you might also have problems. Hopefully you've installed them all
in /usr/local/ or /opt/. You might need to recompile them to get them to
work with new library versions. Keeping them isolated makes it easier to
do so.

If you need a particular version of something to stay you can put the
package on hold.

In my experience Ubuntu upgrades haven't been as smooth as debian
upgrades, but they've still worked great and better than a fresh install.

Note that ubuntu doesn't support command line upgrades. You need to use
the Update Manager. You also need to be upgraded to 6.10 first.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

You could probably go directly from 6.04 or something older, but that
probably hasn't been well tested.

I don't see anything about errata, so hopefully there aren't any common
problems with the upgrades.

In any case, do the upgrade when you've got time to get things back into
working order, just in case :).

ciao,

der.hans
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