Thursday, April 24, 2008

Easily Upgrade to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS

Now is the best time to upgrade, and upgrading is a breeze, sit back relax, and issue the following commands!

Upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 LTS

  1. Press Alt-F2 and type update-manager -d

  2. Click the Check button to check for new updates.

  3. A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new release.

    • update-manager-upgrade-804.png

  4. Click Upgrade.

  5. Follow the on-screen instructions.



Command line upgrade:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Download the iso:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/
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4 comments:

  1. Slippy LaneApril 17, 2008 at 5:10 AM

    Hmm. Is there a rollback feature for when it doesn't work, coz I cursed when I upgraded to Gutsy last year and nothing worked properly.

    Maybe I should make a complete system backup (not just my home folder) before I try it out...

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  2. defconApril 17, 2008 at 5:58 AM

    Slippy, I suggest you search launchpad.net for issues related to your hardware, because everything runs smoothly, im thinking the only issues that could be lurking are mainly driver issues, Ive been running Hardy for months and its been stable, just fixes and improvements to gutsy

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  3. Slippy LaneApril 17, 2008 at 8:43 AM

    I'll let y'all know how it goes, lol.

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  4. Glossy GrapeApril 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM

    When Gutsy was released last year, I was very eager and tried to upgrade on release day. However, the load on the servers made downloading the updates take all day.

    I'm already using Hardy beta, but I recommend that anybody that is eager to upgrade, either upgrade to the devel version now (it's pretty stable), or wait about a week after the release.

    --Scott

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