[PLUG] Upgrade ubuntu without losing applications.

[Onkar Shinde]

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A G wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I read that if we upgrade ubuntu, some of the
> applications vanish.

Read where? Can you give us link?

> eg 5.10 has some application. 6.06 doesnt have that
> application by default.

What applications are you talking about?

> or consider some other case
> in 5.10 I have installed some application from the
> net.
> 
> So if I do sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, those extra
> applications will be removed.

In no way the application will be removed, doesn't matter if you installed it from repositories or
by compilation. If the application is not available anymore in repositories then it will be shown as
'local or obsolate' package by Synaptic package manager after upgrade.

> Pl tell me whether anyone has tried this, or is it
> true.

I have upgraded my Ubuntu from Warty (4.10) -> Hoary (5.04) -> Breezy (5.10) -> Dapper (6.06).
I never lost any application.




Onkar
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