On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > "Sort of." You can upgrade directly from one LTS to the next LTS (eg. 10.04 to 12.04), but can only go from a non-LTS to the next release. So, from 10.10 to 13.04, your upgrade path would indeed by the full list of 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04. If you were on 10.04 instead you could go 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04. HOWEVER, I *believe* the current versions of the upgrade tools (both CLI and GUI) have been improved to have some kind of multi-step capability, such that doing this becomes slightly less awkward for the user (although still very time-consuming). I don't recall what it actually does, but I seem to remember something changing. This is definitely a time when having a local APT mirror comes in handy. :) - Tony -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130417/41bc3abe/attachment.html>