Upgrading to Xenial Xerus 16.04 LTS Ubuntu from 15.10 : 3 Steps

1.   While most of us might already be satisfactorily running the Ubuntu 15.10 version, now when the LTS version is out,I am sharing here few steps to smoothly upgrade to the 16.04 LTS Version that's Xenial Xerus.

STEP 1

Check the present state of your OS if it is updated or not.

 Click on Install updates to ensure that you see the message System Up-to-Date

Step 2

- Open “Software & Updates” in Settings.
- Select the “Updates” tab in the window.
- Checkbox Pre-released updates as seen below in the shot below :
- Check “Notify me of a new Ubuntu version” to “For any new version”

 Step 3

Type the following command at the Terminal : sudo do-release-upgrade

 ...the following screens are seen whilst the upgrade.It takes about a while depending on your internet speed.Just wait till you see a message asking for reboot.

 Confirmation as seen below :

KALI LINUX : UPDATING IN 3 TERMINAL COMMANDS

1.   No big deal for these three terminal commands which actually can suffice for updating any package.As Kali packages are constantly updated between releases, a newer set of tools are available than what were originally downloaded on your DVD ROM or came with any old iso image.

2.  So these go like this :

- Update the local package index with the latest changes made in the repositories:

apt-get update

- Upgrade the existing packages:

apt-get upgrade

- Upgrade to the latest version (if available):

apt-get dist-upgrade

3.  That's it.....do it as Root or add sudo su before u start

Upgrading Fedora 17 to Fedora 18

1.   Like me so many of you would have been waiting for the final release of Fedora 18 spherical cow...but at the same time when u see it released u have so many links to move around on how to upgrade from 17 to 18 but u keep ending up with previous one....i went through the same for past hour...:-)

2.  The only set of commands Fedora 17(only) users need to put in are these :

Reach the Root first with the password ie 

su -
*******(ur password)
su -c 'rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt'


su -c 'setenforce Permissive'

su -c 'yum update yum'

su -c 'yum clean all'

su -c 'yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync'

su -c 'rpm --rebuilddb', or rpm -qa will not work due to a upgrade of rpm

3.   For me the upgrade is around 1.6 G as seen in the screen shot below :

4.   Mine is upgrading on way....another few hours should be ok....:-) all the best for your upgrade

FEDORA 18 RELEASE DATE : 08 Jan 2013

Hi guys....a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 to you.....and for those of you like me who are waiting to upgrade ur Beefy Miracle to Fedora 18 Spherical Cow..u need to wait a few more days till 8 January 2013... that's the release date scheduled now..hope that stands by the time!!!

Upgrading Backtrack R2 to R3 : Distribution Upgrade

Single line terminal command from the BT Terminal to upgrade your Backtrack Dist is

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

FREE UPGRADATION - ONLY A TRICK!!!

1. This trick comes for those who wish to upgrade their processors in the respective computers for free.......(only the name)

2. Start -> run -> type regedit.exe -> press ok

3. In registry editor -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0

4. On right Pane Select ProcessorNameString and change the value to Pentium 5 or as you desire!!

Note: For those PC bugs only who just use the machine and don't worry of whats inside?Of course,they can be content with the name they give....viz an old celeron be renamed to QUAD CORE......and so on!!!!

5. Thanks again to http://www.technotips24x7.co.cc/