Upgrading Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.1

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d$k_1

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How do I upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.1 without having to reinstall the OS. I need all that I have already download to remain in place.

I have been told that I can upgrade from an alternative disk or from the package manager. Which one is best?
 
I did a network upgrade by upgrading to the latest distro and landed up with a whole bunch of corrupted packages and what not. Some of the managed to install, corrupt ones failed and others failed due to missing dependencies. I tried a apt-get -f install system was pretty far gone at that point so I managed to recover what I could through cp (mv was causing a segmentation fault).

I would highly recommend downloading the ISO, burning & upgrading instead of a network install. You'll have the install should you choose to format again and you can check the md5sum before starting the upgrade process.
 
I've done 3 machines using the Update Manager...

All gone without a hitch - I think I literally clicked once - there's really nothing else to do!

Remember (if you're asked) to let it update your menu.lst file after it installs if you're using Grub

When I rebooted, everything was exactly as before. My apps, files and settings were ALL restored.
 
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I did an update using Update manager, everything works perfectly except for wine which I cant get to work(it worked before the update)
 
BrianB said:
I did an update using Update manager, everything works perfectly except for wine which I cant get to work(it worked before the update)
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Weird.. my Wine seems to be working. It's the base install though - so Notepad and "Browse C" are the only things I can test.
 
Dean said:
Weird.. my Wine seems to be working. It's the base install though - so Notepad and "Browse C" are the only things I can test.
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I'm actually running Xubuntu, not sure if it would make a difference. I'll try sort it out over the weekend.
 
I tried to do the update from within the udates manager; but I only had local bandwidth and it wouldnt download from a local mirror... any ideas why?

So I have decided to use the alternate cd instead of trying to argue with the machine.
 
d$k_1 said:
I tried to do the update from within the udates manager; but I only had local bandwidth and it wouldnt download from a local mirror... any ideas why?
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without telling us the kind of error message you received we really couldn't tell.
 
d$k_1 said:
I tried to do the update from within the udates manager; but I only had local bandwidth and it wouldnt download from a local mirror... any ideas why?

So I have decided to use the alternate cd instead of trying to argue with the machine.
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It could be a host of reasons, one I found with my upgrade was that some software were not compatible but I solved this by uninstalling it and reinstalled it when the upgrade was completed.

Another trick, remove all your current extra repositories, only have the official SA mirrors and it should go without a glitch.
 
MyWorld said:
It could be a host of reasons, one I found with my upgrade was that some software were not compatible but I solved this by uninstalling it and reinstalled it when the upgrade was completed.
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I have seen this method take up 500MB or more. You have to watch it like a hawk as sometimes practically the whole system is removed.

Another trick, remove all your current extra repositories, only have the official SA mirrors and it should go without a glitch.
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op - What internet connection do you have?
 
I still want to configure my machine to be able to switch from one account to the other for both local and international. What is the easiest way to to this. I have already setup to connections, ppp0 as international and ppp1 and local and they are working fine for me. How do I change accounts?
 
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