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[Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:10:49 +0100, Bob Trevithick  
<bob.trevithick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> > thanks for getting back, you are still the first one to confirm it  
> > works.
> > The apt-get dist-upgrade could well be a bit of over-kill, but I'd  
> > rather it
> > spend a few moments working out all is well in the world than miss it  
> > out
> > and find out it is needed in certain circumstances :-)
>
> Hi Phill,
>
> My only concern about the dist-upgrade is that, well, somebody might
> not *want* to do a distribution upgrade. :-)  They might inadvertently
> do one because they think this one command is essential.  Or maybe I
> just misunderstand the command myself?
>
> I'm thinking that someone might be building their system based on
> 10.04, and 10.10 might be lurking and ready to pounce on them if they
> issue this command?  Just thinking out loud. ;-)
That won’t happen as you need the '-d' option to go to another version.   
The only difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade, is that dist-upgrade  
can, and will, delete files if there is a conflict of some sort.

> Yes, it's a lovely distro!  I never boot anything else now.  I'm sure
> I'm going to remove Ubuntu Gnome from my system, as it just sits there
> now taking up space.  I really never go into it for anything.
> Lubuntu, with a bit of idiosyncratic massaging on my part, is exactly
> what I've been looking for.
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
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