The blessed release is now out. I have been running an alpha quite happily since January. Should I nuke and pave, or is upgrading known to be safe?
The blessed release is now out. I have been running an alpha quite happily since January. Should I nuke and pave, or is upgrading known to be safe?
If you've been doing regular updates, you will have the final version already.
I did it both ways and had no issues. Upgraded on my desktop and did a fresh install on the laptop. Both went smoothly.
Where is it telling you that it's still alpha?
Anyway, a dist-upgrade should pull you up to the final release.
As will simply running software updater.
Make sure to click install when the packages are listed.
Though, I wouldn't be surprised to see a partial upgrade wanted(needed)
I would suspect, though, that if a partial upgrade was needed, it should be okay. But tread lightly.
Here's a quick overview of those
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/U%2B1/partial_upgrade
just in case.
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Is anyone getting the new wallpapers? Did a full update this morning and everything went smoothly, but I still see the 13.10 salamander wallpapers...? It's making me think that the full update is not occurring by simply updating throughout.
It was telling me it was 13.10 on the startup screen - which is what I had on the clean alpha install. Which I only installed as a last resort due to AMD misery. This is the status -
Discovered that the software update service scheduler was completely broken, hence no updates. Launched manually and there was ~600mb of updates, which I fetched - and which necessitated a reboot. Rebooted only to discover the AMD proprietary driver and xorg were completely trashed - back to the state I was in when I first got this machine, no graphics whatsoever, just a shell. The update was only partial, so not really expecting much, ran -
and rebooted. Then I received first pleasant surprise - the desktop loaded, told me I had 14.04 and the xserver AMD driver had downloaded, installed and configured itself. Not just that, my machine can now recover from sleep instead of going into a coma - this has always been a problem for me on Dells. I find it odd that the LiveCD option fails to load graphics though.Code:sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
So a final question - is there a simple way to verify I have the full LTS release installed correctly?
Last edited by felgro; April 28th, 2014 at 10:49 AM.
As 14.04 is now released...
Thread moved to Installation & Upgrades.
To answer your last question, run this in a terminal:
This is the output I get on a 14.04 system upgraded from 13.10:Code:cat /etc/lsb-release
Code:DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
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