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On Monday 15 December 2008 23:44, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/12/15 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I have been toying with the idea of upgrading it to 8.10, but had a > > fairly bad experience upgrading a completely plain 8.04 to 8.10 - as an > > experiment I installed 8.04 on the desktop and upgraded it to 8.10... it > > didn't go very well, so I installed 8.10 from scratch. > > You could install 8.10 over the top of 8.04 on your laptop. Just make > sure you DONT reformat and the installer will clean out all the > directories (/bin /etc etc) but leave your home folder untouched. or you could set the update manager to use (i cant remember exactly) non-supported upgrades, reload it and then it will then tell you theres and upgrade available and lead you through the process. I must say I've had this bugger up one machine - it did have KDE and Gnome managers on it and got serious schizophrenia - but others have updated OK. I must say it is worrying how interdependent some packages are getting - whatever happened to the early Unix philosophy of do one job and do it well. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html