Upgrading Kubuntu

[Jon M. Hanson]

I can easily update to sources list. Why don't the upgrade  
instructions say anything about doing this (specifically I'm looking  
at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades/Kubuntu)? It  
seems like the Adept Manager should see the new release version and  
offer the "Version Upgrade" button without me having to modify a  
software sources file. Maybe I'm just to accustomed to how Gentoo works.

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On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Jon M. Hanson <jon at the-hansons- 
> az.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:20:43PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Jon M. Hanson <jon at the-hansons-az.net 
>>> > wrote:
>>>> I've been using Linux for a long time and recently I've been  
>>>> playing
>>>> around with Kubuntu. I'm currently running 8.04 with the KDE 4  
>>>> Remix and
>>>> wanted to do the online upgrade to 8.10. From the instructions on  
>>>> the
>>>> website it says to do:
>>>>
>>>> kdesudo "adept_manager --dist-upgrade"
>>>>
>>>> I expect to get the package installer coming up with the "Version
>>>> Upgrade" button. The package manager starts but there is no  
>>>> "Version
>>>> Upgrade" button.
>>>>
>>>> The instructions on the website are pretty straightforward so I  
>>>> don't
>>>> think I've missed anything but it's not behaving as expected.
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>
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>>> 8.04 is an LTS version and as such has updates to "normal" releases
>>> turned off.  Just go into your software sources, assuming it is  
>>> called
>>> that in KDE land, and on the update tab go to the list box at the
>>> bottom and change it from LTS only to Normal.
>>>
>>> That said, I have no clue whether the remix upgrades normally.
>>
>> This is what I have on the "Updates" tab in "Software Sources":
>>
>> - Important security updates (checked)
>> - Recommended updates (checked)
>> - Pre-released updates (unchecked)
>> - Unsupported updates (unchecked)
>> - Check for Updates: Daily (checked)
>>
>> There isn't something exactly like you describe (changing something  
>> from
>> LTS to Normal). The closest thing would be the "Unsupported  
>> updates" but
>> that doesn't seem really right either.
>>
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> I don't have the KDE 4 remix loaded anywhere to check this.  Perhaps
> someone else does.
>
> I doubt the KDE folks removed this safeguard from the LTS version
> unless they, quite possibly, removed its LTS status by doing the
> remix.  So you might look further for the list box I mentioned and if
> you still do not find it I would assume they did remove the LTS
> status.
>
> The web page you referred to probably told you tyo do two things
> before issuing kdesudo "adept_manager --dist-upgrade" and perhaps you
> did them.  But since you did not say so, I suggest you go back to that
> page and be sure that you do two things first:
>
> 1. Get 8.04 completely updated, and
> 2. change your listed repositories from Hardy to Intrepid before doing
> the dist-upgrade
>
> If that is not the problem I am stumped for now without a system to  
> look at
>
>
> -- 
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> animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and
> what they ought to be.
>  - William Hazlitt
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