said Slávek Banko:
| I always strictly avoided the Ubuntu tool because one of the steps it | performs is to disable all external apt sources. But this step is a very | good reason for causing conflicts during the dist-upgrade. | | Instead, I use the classic Debian way == change the distribution name in | all apt sources lists and then the common procedure: | | apt-get udpate | apt-get upgrade | apt-get clean | apt-get dist-upgrade | apt-get clean | apt-get autoremove
thanks very much -- that's the approach i'll take.
while i'm here -- there was talk that there was something wrong with 16.04 and that 14.04 was preferable. as my current situation demonstrates, i'm not a big fan of upgrading distributions, and going only to 14.04 means i get to do this all over again in two years. so -- have the issues with 16.04 been ironed out, or is it still to be avoided?
thanks again.