On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 02:00:37PM +0530, Abhinav Modi wrote: > dist-upgrade (also run as update-manager -d) : Upgrade your entire > ubuntu version to a new version. For eg, currently running this on a > koala system (9.10) would allow you to upgrade to 10.04 (Lucid :Lynx) > BETA 1. As Beta 2, RC, and finally stable 10.04 get released, you can > use this command when you like to upgrade from 9.10 to the then > current release. THIS can break your system, esp when upgrading to > Alpha/Beta. :)
I don't think so. I am running jaunty and i always use dist-upgrade to update my system (and still i am on a jaunty) Some time ago, i also used the think the same way. But after a little research, found the following The only difference (i believe) between upgrade and dist-upgrade is that - * upgrade = safe upgrade (does not upgrade packages that apt-get believes will break the system) * dist-upgrade = full upgrade (forces all upgrades) To upgrade to the latest release, i guess, the command is - do-release-upgrade Regards, Nitesh -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
