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Re: [Question #78874]: Karmic: Update or clean install?

 

Question #78874 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78874

    Status: Answered => Open

Athani is still having a problem:
Thanks. Suppose I clean install the Karmic final release, can I first
back-up installed packages so I don't have to download them again?

2009/8/2 marcobra (Marco Braida) <question78874@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Your question #78874 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78874
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> Please read http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha3 release note...
> with new features... (ext4, grub2 etc.) a clean install will be
> installed with them.
>
> An upgrade of from a Ubuntu 9.04 release system require some additional
> steps to get the almost the same working system (i mean with the same
> install defaults of Ubuntu 9.10).
>
> To get maximum speed from ext4 file system is better to reinstall it
> from scratch.
>
> Hope this helps
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