Bugs318
May 6th, 2009, 04:19 AM
I am currently running 8.04 (my first ever ubuntu distro) and am pondering upgrading to 9.04 but have a couple of questions.
1) Would it be best to do a clean install rather than upgrading directly (through 8.10, then to 9.04) for orphaned files/junk/buildup on the system or is there no real difference?
2) If I were to do a clean install, are my /home and /usr directories (which have their own partitions) safe to not reformat in the install and when I designate that location as my new home folder will ubuntu incorporate the files already existing there?
3) Finally, if I were to upgrade via the update manager rather than a clean install, will installed software packages require reinstallation as I presume they would upon a clean install?
Thanks in advance for all of your help!
1) Would it be best to do a clean install rather than upgrading directly (through 8.10, then to 9.04) for orphaned files/junk/buildup on the system or is there no real difference?
2) If I were to do a clean install, are my /home and /usr directories (which have their own partitions) safe to not reformat in the install and when I designate that location as my new home folder will ubuntu incorporate the files already existing there?
3) Finally, if I were to upgrade via the update manager rather than a clean install, will installed software packages require reinstallation as I presume they would upon a clean install?
Thanks in advance for all of your help!