{"id":1053,"date":"2010-06-13T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2010-06-13T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:25:10","slug":"upgrading-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the time has come again for me to run the “Distribution Upgrade” from the Update Manager window.\u00a0 This usually means certain destruction.\u00a0 I think I’ve only successfully upgraded an Ubuntu system once before.\u00a0 Every other time I’ve done it, it has gone horribly wrong and left me with a broken and irreparable system.\u00a0 Like I said before on the interwebs somewhere… “Every time I do an upgrade.\u00a0 And every time it fails catastrophically and I do a fresh install”.<\/p>\n

Excuse me, I’m going to go open the window.<\/p>\n

That’s better.\u00a0 It’s nice and sunny out today.\u00a0 Dare I say even… hot?\u00a0 Well, 27\u00b0.\u00a0 I don’t like it too warm, so I consider anything above 25\u00b0 to be “hot”<\/p>\n

Now where was I.\u00a0 Yes, the Distribution Upgrade!<\/p>\n

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\nI always approach these things with trepidation.\u00a0 I always back up my shit too.\u00a0 Like every computer expert says, “Backs up yo shiznit!”<\/p>\n

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\nAnd my parents don’t have much on this laptop.\u00a0 Just links in Firefox and a few pictures of their cats.<\/p>\n

But I’ve already completed the successful upgrade from Xubuntu 9.04 to Xubuntu 9.10.\u00a0 Right now, it’s in the process of upgrading from that to 10.04.<\/p>\n

And if this works without a hitch, as it has so far, I’ll try an upgrade on my laptop, which is an experimental setup for me to try new things on anyway.\u00a0 I have LXDE running on Xubuntu on that thing.\u00a0 And if that goes well, I’ll try upgrading my music PC, which has Ubuntu 9.04 on it.\u00a0 I don’t like the way Gnome is set up under Ubuntu 10.04, and I don’t like the direction that Gnome 3 is headed, so I’ll see what I can do about THAT.<\/p>\n

But I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.\u00a0 For the time being, I’m nothing short of amazed that an upgrade has gone like it should.\u00a0 It’s as if it was meant to actually upgrade the system and not destroy it!\u00a0 Amazing!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the time has come again for me to run the “Distribution Upgrade” from the Update Manager window.\u00a0 This usually means certain destruction.\u00a0 I think I’ve only successfully upgraded an Ubuntu system once before.\u00a0 Every other time I’ve done it, it has gone horribly wrong and left me with a broken and irreparable system.\u00a0 Like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7,6],"tags":[324,253],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-linux","category-lxde","category-ubuntu","tag-distribution-upgrade","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}