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Upgrading to Intrepid Ibex With a Local apt-mirror

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 2008

[ Thanks to Alan
Moore
for this link. ]

“With Debian, of course, upgrading is just a matter of
changing to the next release in /etc/apt/sources.list and doing
aptitude dist-upgrade. With Ubuntu, that doesn’t work out so
cleanly (though I can attest that it does work if you’re willing to
hack around on it a bit). You have to use the do-release-upgrade
script instead.

“So enough pointless rambling, how do we get do-release-upgrade
to recognize our local apt-mirror server? Do read on…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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