I wanted to upgrade my Ubuntu installation to the latest version, but wanted to make sure that it wasn’t already updated (shared servers are fun).

uname -a shows a decent amount of information, but I wanted to know what version of ubuntu I was currently on. With Ubuntu 9.10 released today, I ran some quick updates:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

uname -a
Showed this:

Linux ubuntuserver 2.6.28-16-server #55-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 20 20:50:00 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a
Showed this:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

So I’m still on 9.04.

Then I realized I have to update some more…

apt-get install update-manager-core
do-release-upgrade
I then got this error:

This session appears to be running under ssh. It is not recommended
to perform a upgrade over ssh currently because in case of failure it
is harder to recover.

So I decided to run it local. At a whopping 50KB/sec this will take a while:

11 packages are going to be removed. 110 new packages are going to be installed. 444 packages are going to be upgraded.

You have to download a total of 332M. This download will take about 1 hour 10 minutes with your connection.

Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the download has finished, the process cannot be cancelled.

I think I’ll eat lunch while it’s doing its thing.