Nov 13
Today i did a upgrade of my Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) to the new release Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid). The upgrade procedure was really easy, you only need two commands and about 30 minutes
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade
You should modify the file /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades, so that the update-manager allows you to upgrade to a non-lts release:
[DEFAULT] # default prompting behavior, valid options: # never - never prompt for a new distribution version # normal - prompt if a new version of the distribution is available # lts - prompt only if a LTS version of the distribution is available Prompt=normal
I had an old VirtualBox OSE 1.6.2 installation which should not seems to work with the recent 2.6.27 kernel modules. So i first delete the old VirtualBox release and installed the recent stable release from Sun.
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-ose sudo echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.0
