Re: [nmglug] Upgrading a server version of Ubuntu.

Tim,
	The official way for servers (non-gui) is...

1. sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
2. sudo do-release-upgrade

and follow the instructions.  Hope this helps.


Eric

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:42 -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
> I'm running about 13 machines in my garage.  They are running
> Ubuntu-Gutsy server version and BOINC.  One of the machines is
> mirroring the ubuntu site so that apt-get dist-upgrade is a pretty
> painless and fast process across the machines.
> 
> Ubuntu wiki states that to upgrade to a newer version (hardy for
> instance) you would run "update-manager -d".  I thought I would try it
> but it turns out update-manager is an X app and I'm not interested in
> installing X on any of these machines.
> 
> A command line alternative short of updating all of
> the /etc/apt/sources.list files on each machine?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
> 
> btw, I know that there is a command line to replace all occurances of
> "gutsy" with "hardy" in /etc/apt/sources.list but it escapes me.
> Anybody???
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