Ubuntu 8.04: Upgrade or clean install?


 
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Old 05-08-2008
Ubuntu 8.04: Upgrade or clean install?

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:00:00 GMT
Which path should you follow? Should you take advantage of Ubuntu's package manager and use it to upgrade your system to the latest 8.04 Hardy Heron release, or should you download a CD or DVD ISO image and do a clean install? Common wisdom says that doing a clean install is the better, safer course of action. There may be a little extra work involved configuring everything once the latest and greatest is installed, but that's nothing compared to the pain of an update gone wrong, according to traditional thinking. But that cautious approach may no longer be necessary.


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unattended-upgrade(8)					      System Manager's Manual					     unattended-upgrade(8)

NAME
unattended-upgrade - automatic installation of security (and other) upgrades SYNOPSIS
unattended-upgrade [options] DESCRIPTION
This program can download and install security upgrades automatically and unattended, taking care to only install packages from the config- ured APT source, and checking for dpkg prompts about configuration file changes. All output is logged to /var/log/unattended-ugprades.log. This script is the backend for the APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade option and designed to be run from cron (e.g. via /etc/cron.daily/apt). OPTIONS
unattended-upgrade accepts the following options -h, --help help output -d, --debug extra debug output into /var/log/unattended-upgrades.log --dry-run Just simulate installing updates, do not actually do it CONFIGURATION
The configuration is done via the apt configuration mechanism, the default configuration file can be found at /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unat- tended-upgrades AUTHORS
unattended-upgrade is written by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> This manual page was originally written by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Canonical There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. May 4, 2009 unattended-upgrade(8)