On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:13 +0530, Rony wrote:
pavithran s wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ronygnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday I have to remove Ubuntu 8.04 from 5 machines and install Ubuntu 9.04 simply because upgrading Open Office is not possible in Linux.
#apt-get upgrade
For better mnanagement of packages we have package management systems(apt) in GNU/Linux distributions .
'apt-get upgrade' will only upgrade installed packages to their latest version, within the scope of the existing distro.
'apt-get dist-upgrade' will upgrade your distro to the latest version. As mentioned in my earlier replies, I don't trust this process for long term peace of mind and body.
+1 I can confirm that the system might often become slow and will provide some tough time because some times some dependencies don't get resolved.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.