On 10 February 2010 15:00, Clive Woodfine <clivewoodfine@???> wrote:
> Please can anyone help? I have been running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy
> since its release and I would like to do a dist-upgrade. If I wait
> till the next LTS will I be able to dist-upgrade in one step? If not
> what is the best way to go more than 1 dist-upgrade?
>
In short, you can upgrade from one LTS to the next LTS. 10.04 is the
next LTS, due in April this year. So you will be able to upgrade from
8.04 to 10.04.
However we generally recommend people don't "edit sources.list,
apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade" as the method of upgrading.
Although it's possible, and works for some people, it's not the most
tested or robust way of doing it.
We generally recommend you use update-manager (for machines with a
GUI), or do-release-upgrade (for machines without a GUI, or machines
you have only remote access to). This is covered in the upgrade
guides, which will be updated for 10.04 when it is released.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
Cheers,
Al.
