Comments on: Howto: upgrade from Ubuntu Linux breezy to dapper

By: Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Upgrading an old Compaq Ipaq from Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger to 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:38:48 +0000

[...] First I updated her /etc/apt/sources.list file and changed every "breezy" to "dapper." [...]

By: Edgar

Edgar — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:56:58 +0000

Method one was exelent!!!, I upgraded form Hoary to Dapper.
Thankyou very much…

By: cameron

cameron — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:04:30 +0000

method #1 also works for hoary hedgehog to dapper.

By: LinuxTitli

LinuxTitli — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:13:26 +0000

Daemmon,

gksudo is part of Gnome desktop and it should be installed. Try any one of the following:
kdesu update-manager â€“d

Or to install gksudo type the following command:
sudo apt-get install gksu

By: Daemmon

Daemmon — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:22:44 +0000

Hello,
I am trying to upgrade to dapper from breezy. I tried method #2 and got:

bash: gksudo: command not found

How do install gksudo? Your post seems to imply that this should be installed by default so I am also wondering why it isn’t in my system already.

Thanks

By: Harrakis

Harrakis — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:10:48 +0000

Better yet, did you remove the # before all of the http:// lines? if you don;t then apt will not have a clue that it should be looking at the interent to get the updates…

By: LinuxTitli

LinuxTitli — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:30:29 +0000

Maria,

Did you modified the your /etc/apt/sources.list file and replace all word that read as breezy to dapper?

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:15:24 +0000

please help…. i tried method # 1 and this is what i get…
tgb@Extra:~$ sudo apt-get update
Reading package lists… Done
tgb@Extra:~$ sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
tgb@Extra:~$ sudo update-manager -d

why is that so?

i also tried method #2 but it only says that my system is up-to-date when in fact i only have Breezy Badger version.

please help.

many thanks,

maria

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:55:01 +0000

Marc,

They have optimized the kernel so we will get nice speed and thanks for pointing out typo :D

Appreciate your post and feedback.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:47:54 +0000

I upgraded to Ubuntu 6 (“Dapper Drake”) from Ubuntu 5 (“Breezy Badger”, which I was already pleased with) and was pleasantly surprised to find that my system is much more responsive than with Breezy. Firefox seems especially snappier. I really like the new GNOME deskbar applet too.

Also, in your tag line, I think you mean “comprehensive” rather than “compressive”?

By: LinuxTitli

LinuxTitli — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:18:16 +0000

Thanks, I had updated the post :)

However, method # 1, worked very well for me.

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:35:53 +0000

You are actually incorrect in the command you posted to upgrade from breezy to dapper.
‘gksudo update-manager’ will open up update-manager, but not prompt you to update to a newer major release. This default was requested by Mark Shuttleworth. To display the “new distro available” upgrade option, try this command:
‘gksudo update-manager -d’
Also, this is the “suggested” way to upgrade from breezy to dapper and is what should be first.