upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10

[satishkhandekar]

Hi,

I want to upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 beta release which is yet to come. But I have doubt regarding my already installed software like other applications, games,IDE's etc.
What will happen to them? Will they be still there or I have to redo all the installations?

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
Satish

[sanderj]

Yes, if you upgrade, the old apps *should* be there afterwards.

However, it's a Beta, so you can expect anything, including loosing all your data and apps.

So if you're worried about that, but still want to test 11.10 Beta, run it from a persistent USB stick.

[Mark Phelps]

Hi,

I want to upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 beta release which is yet to come. But I have doubt regarding my already installed software ..
Unlike MS Windows, Ubuntu has no "roll-back" capability, that is, if you run into problems (being a Beta, this is almost certainly going to be the case), you can not simply "restore" your current working install. You will have to reinstall from scratch -- losing the stuff you have now.

[grahammechanical]

Do what I have done. Make space for another partition on the hard disk and install 11.10 into that partition. In other words dual boot between 11.04 and 11.10. Then a few weeks after 11.10 is released, upgrade the 11.04 and get ready for running 12.04 in that partition you are using for testing.

Regards.

[satishkhandekar]

Thanks to you all for the suggestions.
I think creating a partition is good for me. it will solve the problem permanently for 11.10, 12.04, 12.10.......:D

[Markmental]

you shouldn't be installing 11.10 on your physical hard drive. Get Virtual Box or Vmware and install 11.10 on that.