DarkDead
March 9th, 2011, 04:01 PM
Hi,
Along the years I've customized my Ubuntu installation, removing many unused packages and substituting some for others I prefer.
In my desktop computer when I upgrade the distribution the Update Manager just upgrades the currently installed packages.
However that doesn't happen in my laptop. When I try to upgrade from lucid to maverick it asks me to install a bunch of new packages that correspond to the ubuntu-desktop bundle. How can I avoid this and just upgrade the packages currently installed?
The only way I can think of is to edit the sources.list file and substitute lucid for maverick in the repositories. Though I believe that might corrupt my system.
I haven't found any way to enable this feature and I wonder how my desktop does this by default.
Any help would be much appreciated as I would avoid removing all the unwanted packages again.
Along the years I've customized my Ubuntu installation, removing many unused packages and substituting some for others I prefer.
In my desktop computer when I upgrade the distribution the Update Manager just upgrades the currently installed packages.
However that doesn't happen in my laptop. When I try to upgrade from lucid to maverick it asks me to install a bunch of new packages that correspond to the ubuntu-desktop bundle. How can I avoid this and just upgrade the packages currently installed?
The only way I can think of is to edit the sources.list file and substitute lucid for maverick in the repositories. Though I believe that might corrupt my system.
I haven't found any way to enable this feature and I wonder how my desktop does this by default.
Any help would be much appreciated as I would avoid removing all the unwanted packages again.