How would you skip them, download the iso run the install and choose upgrade? That should work without issue especially if you let it remove the packages that are no longer supported at the end but I don't think I'd trust that process if it was a machine I was depending on. For what it's worth I just did some 'do-system-upgrade' upgrades from 12.10 to 13.04 without any issues, but I keep pretty clean systems (no installs from source, etc....) so I rarely have problems. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Ryan Dunlop wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net> >> wrote: >> >> I share your distaste for Ubuntu, i should point out however that if you >>> are using dist-upgrade you are probably doing it wrong. Ubuntu is NOT >>> debian and doing things the debian way is probably not the best way of >>> doing thing. The command to update and Ubuntu system to the latest release >>> is using the do-system-upgrade command. >>> >>> behind the scenes it does indeed do a dist-upgrade, but it does a little >>> more from what i can tell. >>> >> >> >> Isn't it 'do-release-upgrade'? >> > > > Yes, do-release-upgrade. That's a good one to know. I usually just > choose it from the update manager window, but I am using X. > > So here's a question -- to upgrade to the latest version, must one upgrade > to each intermediate version in between? For example, I have a machine > with Ubuntu 10.10... > > $ cat /etc/issue > Ubuntu 10.10 \n \l > > ...(in case anyone forgot how to tell the release version), and if I want > to upgrade to 13.04 in a few weeks, do I have to go through 11.04, 11.10, > 12.04 and 12.10 first? > > > Mike > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -- Michael Greenly http://logic-refinery.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130417/87616344/attachment.html>