I'm finally being Gutsy…
sudo sed -e 's/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Notably, the first time I’ve actually dared use sed for anything remotely system-critical – and I did have a little help from teh internets. Practicing with sed and grep (essentially, practicing arbitrary regexp usage) is my early New Year’s Resolution on the Linux side of life – I’m at a stage where if I want to get “better” at Linux, this is the one thing that’s really going to make a big difference to my commandline-foo.
Anyways, aptitude is jumping around between around 5 and 10 hours of upgrading to be done… w00t. Shall have to see how many more times I need to invoke aptitude to get a functional system again!
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For reference, the recommended upgrade route is:
. I used your method, and everything was fine, but I believe using the recommended route is meant to cause less strange things to happen.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades
The ‘server version’ giving the nice supported command-line method
Duly noted. I was annoyed that the recommended desktop method simply didn’t work for me – I was going to do it graphically, but the update wizard was never offered, even once I was up to date.