[Novices] Ubuntu Version Upgrade

[Chris Hansen]

drop to a shell

type:
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.`date +%m%d%Y`
sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list.`date +%m%d%Y` |sed s/hoary/breezy/g 
 >/etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Or read this for more options https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyUpgrade

Mark Jones wrote:

>We got Ubuntu 5.04 loaded onto the machine. (Thanks Todd). I used both
>the Update Manager and apt-get to do what I thought was a VERSION
>upgrade.  It appears that it simply update ver 5.04.  I have two
>questions...
>
>1) How do I check the version of Ubuntu?  Maybe it did upgrade to 5.10
>and I just don't know it.
>
>2) What is the apt-get command to do a version upgrade?  Also, has
>anyone done an upgrade using the UpdateManager.
>
>TIA,
>Mark
>
>
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