Ubuntu 8.04 Beta installation

[GraemeUK]

Just a quick question please:

If I installed the 8.04 Beta release when the final is released would I have to format and clean install or is it possible to upgrade from 8.04 beta to 8.04 final through sudo-apt get update or sudo-apt get upgrade ?

Cheers in advance

 

[Outcast]

well...

My test machine was running 8:04 ALPHA and I clicked upgrade and it borked it !!
Deleted the ext3 & swap partitions and did a clean install of 8:04 beta and it's pretty damn awesome.
Upgrading the beta hopefully wont bork this install.

 

[TrX]

Any packages updated in ubuntu 8.04 development are put into the repository that the Beta installation looks at for updates, and so as long as you keep updating when there are new packages, you will be taken (eventually) up through the release candidates and then to the final distro.

As you are running a beta (and even moreso when it was an alpha) things probably will bork, and then get fixed over the next couple of days. But overall I am impressed with 8.04 so far.

(and it's sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade)

sudo update-manager -d
Will give you the graphical update screen instead of doing it on the CLI. (this is usually already running (Orange star in notification bar when there are updates available)

//TrX

Outcast: it's an alpha, there will be broken bits... If you give it a couple of days and keep update / upgrading the 'borked bits' tend to get fixed.

 

[GraemeUK]

Thanks for clearing that up TrX