Comment 291 for bug 173890

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:42:29PM -0000, John Vivirito wrote:
> Savvas Radević wrote:
> >> In dapper, as of today, the install (still) fails

> > Are you trying to upgrade the version from dapper-backports?
> > open Applications > Accessories > Terminal and type: apt-cache policy
> > flashplugin-nonfree
> > If you see version 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu11~dapper3, then I think that the
> > new version 9 is not officially supported, since it's in
> > dapper-backports (right?)

> > If I were you, I would be looking to smoothly upgrade to hardy :)

> Please do a clean install instead of upgrade.
> reasons:
> 1. we dont support upgrade when used to skip releases as in dapper
> > hardy isnt supported it would have to be dapper > edgy > feisty
> > gutsy > hardy

We most certainly do support upgrades from 6.06 LTS directly to 8.04 LTS.
If there are packages that are causing upgrade failures when upgrading
dapper->hardy, those should be considered candidates for SRU fixes.

In fact, going directly from dapper to hardy is the *only* supported upgrade
path at this point, because edgy has already been end-of-lifed so dapper ->
edgy is not supported.

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