[nzlug] ubuntu upgrade help

[Daniel Lawson]

brendon wrote:
> hi there going to do a upgrade on a clients machine today and was
> wanting to know if before hand i can go to the terminal prompt and do a
> apt-get clean to rmove the old .deb packages from the /etc/apt/cache
> then go to the update manager and click on the upgrade button which it
> has to upgrade to feisty my client is using edgy at the moment.
>
> and one other thing will all of his data be kept i mean email and
> borwser settings, and stuff in his home folder. he is using thunderbird
> for email and firefox for web


* If you haven't done this yourself beforehand, you really should be
doing it on a test machine first.
* The upgrade will probably go fine, but it may or may not be
straightforward, and may require intervention depending on your graphics
card, network card, etc. See above point.
* In any case, you should also be backing up all his data to another
machine or to CD or DVD first.