Upgrading Ubuntu Linux from 5.10 to 6.06
Posted by IronMac on March 1st, 2007
First off, if you’re here for assistance/tips/pointers, forget it.
Early this morning, decided that I had a few minutes with which I could upgrade my 5.10 distro to the 6.06 that had arrived in the mail last week. Maybe that would solve the problem of Firefox crashing all the time? I looked in the Beginning Ubuntu Linux book that I had and the instructions were relatively simple. Pop the CD in and the system should ask you if you want to upgrade.
Nope. It just sat there.
So, I went online to find some help and looked at the online documentation. My first stop was at Daniel Holbach’s blog with the instructions:
gksu update-manager -d
which almost worked but something happened where my password was not accepted. Rats!
So, I finally went on over to the Dapper Upgrades over at the Community Ubuntu Documentation. Since I had the CD, I went with instruction no. 4. of Upgrading from an Ubuntu 6.06 CD. No joy. Maybe I had made the fatal assumption of thinking I had the “ubuntu-package” installed? Well, you’d think that this would have been installed if you had everything else installed, wouldn’t you?
So, 45 minutes after all of this I decided to just blow away the 5.10 install and start afresh. That went well until I found out that the system doesn’t pick up any wireless networks. #$%^!
I am certainly not impressed by this. How can a new install not support what it can support in the past and why doesn’t it offer an option of recognizing a prior install and allow for an archive-and-install option?
