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How best to upgrade from Jaunty to Lucid without Karma?

Asked by Malcolm Jaros

Is it true that the safest (only?) way to upgrade from 9.04 Jaunty to 10.04 Lucid is to first upgrade to 9.10 Karma?
This seems messy and likely to burn a lot of bandwidth and I would rather just clean out the Jaunty partition and load Lucid from scratch. Is this a bad idea? I would copy my /home directory to a USB memory stick and back it up to another drive, but what else would I need to safeguard?
Thanks for suggestions, MalJaros

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Best theadmin (theadmin-) said : 		#1

Not "Karma", "Karmic". Well, backing up /home is a good idea, don't backup other stuff to mess it. You might also want to write some script to remove packages which you surely don't need and install those you do. This is (as an example) a script i have on my flashdrive that i run on every clean install:
apt-get remove rhythmbox totem python-ubuntuone-client
apt-get autoremove
add-apt-repository deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main
add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
apt-get update
apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2
apt-get upgrade
Well, something like that.

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#2

remember 10.04 is in beta 1 . read release notes .. release date april 29 2010 for into the wild

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Malcolm Jaros (maljaros) said : 		#3

Thanks 13thSlayer, that solved my question.