Upgrading Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Server to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS Server
on Tuesday 6th May, 2008 Gabe speculated thusly…Today I upgraded a server that was running Gutsy AMD64 arch. I wanted to note in this blog that the update went well, and the result is what seems to be a perfectly good Hardy Heron system. This is what I did from the command line:
sudo aptitude install update-manager-core
followed by:
sudo do-release-upgrade
Went through it all. Sometimes got prompted about config files - whether to keep my version or install package maintainers version. I chose to install the maintainers in case there were some important new config options (I had backups of my config files). These were mostly related to Apache and PHP. Having gone through the config files I can say that it is safe to choose to keep your config files (if upgrading from Gutsy). If you’re going from Dapper you probably should check.