[svlug] Fwd: interrupted ubuntu update

[David Fox]

oops, i kinda wanted this to go to the list too... :(


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From: David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:06:49 -0800
Subject: Re: [svlug] interrupted ubuntu update
To: Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com>
On 3/1/08, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote:
> Is there a simple way of telling it to continue the update from where
> it left off?
I'm not quite sure. On the other hand, on last Cabal meet, I had just
started an aptitude update and followed it by an aptitude dist-upgrade
when Bruce rang the doorbell and then I had to go. So I left the thing
running, and when I came home (really late) I had noticed there had
been a power outage. So, I rebooted the machine and when I got to a
shell prompt, I restarted the dist-upgrade from the beginning.
Luckily, it went through just fine, only stopping to download the few
packages it needed .
So I guess it would depend on just where you were in the upgrade,
whether or not you might experience problems like this.
>
> Failing that, it turns out that the update was only to 7.04 rather
> than 7.10, is there someway that I can use my DVD to upgrade directly
What about changing your sources list to point to gutsy, doing an
apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade?

(later, after reading other parts of thread) it seems the preferred
way to do this might be
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade then follow that with an apt-get
dist-upgrade, although on some occasions I've used aptitude
successfully on Ubuntu at least a few times and normally I just do an
aptitude update followed by an aptitude dist-upgrade.