I decided over the weekend that I wanted to try out the latest beta of Ubuntu on my test box. Since I’m not running anything critical on there apart from a test copy of my blog, I figured it was safe to upgrade.

I checked out the official upgrade page which told me I can use the Update Manager, which is the graphical tool built into Ubuntu. I’m a command-line guy, but I figured I’d try it… all you have to do is start the app with this line:

gksu “update-manager -c -d”

Now that is simple. It launched the dialog, I clicked the Install Updates button, and it did everything else for me.

Wow that was easy. They sure are making Ubuntu user-friendly.

Note: Don’t try this if you are running Ubuntu as a VMWare Guest. Doesn’t work so well there. I’ll post something once I figure that out.