upgrade using apt-get upgrade and letter

[ubuntumaybe]

Hi,

I would like to up grade to the most recent release. If I use the upgrade manager it will take too many hours. I would like to run the upgrade from the prompt using apt-get upgrade but doing only the apps beginning with an a first then moving on. How can I do this. Thanks.

[mcduck]

Hi,

I would like to up grade to the most recent release. If I use the upgrade manager it will take too many hours. I would like to run the upgrade from the prompt using apt-get upgrade but doing only the apps beginning with an a first then moving on. How can I do this. Thanks.

You can't. Packages depend on many other packages, and dependencies don't really follow alphabetic order or anything like that.

If you want to upgrade, you really need to upgrade everything.

[ubuntumaybe]

Thanks for your speedy reply. The problem is that I am in a library and I am getting time estimates of 10hrs to 2 days to download all the files. There has to be another way of doing this. Thanks

[Dougie187]

The other way would be to download the alternate cd and using that to preform an upgrade. Otherwise it will probably take a long time to upgrade.

[ubuntumaybe]

I do not have a working cd-rom drive. So I cannot boot from a cd. Is there a way doing an update from booting the downloaded .iso file from a hard drive? Can the update be done in qemu? THanks.