Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
I have Edgy Server installed (upgraded from Dapper).
I run update-manager (from a remote xterm) and it offers me to upgrade to 7.04.
I accept, but it soon dies (relatively gracefully) because there is no
ubuntu-desktop installed, and it says it can't upgrade without that.
Of course there isn't. It's a server, and Ubuntu doesn't install desktop
stuff (another 600MB) on its server distro.
This is a big disappointment to the server administrator who is offered
a tool to upgrade!
Correct behaviour would be to
- not offer to do the server dist-upgrade in upgrade-manager
- know how to upgrade something that is a server, not a desktop
If policy is that servers shouldn't be managed with GUIs, then the gui
should recognise that it is dealing with a server and not offer to
upgrade. If this is the policy, then this can also be considered a
feature request.
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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upgrade-manager for server fails to upgrade distribution (feisty-edgy), despite
offering, for lack of a desktop installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149538
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