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Upgrading from Edgy to Feisty went like clockwork, to use an archaic analogy.

At time of writing this gave me newer releases of a lot of important packages I use:

Feisty 7.04 released 2007/4/19
Kernel: 2.6.20-15
Libc6: 2.5-0ubuntu14
apache2: 2.2.3-3.2
mysql-server-5.0_5.0.38
postgresql-server: 8.2_8.2.3-3
php: 5.2.1-0ubuntu1
python: 2.5.1
ruby: 1.8.5-4
gnome: 2.18.1-0
sun-java: 6-00-2

Edgy 6.01 released 2006/10/26
Kernel: 2.6.17-10
libc6: 2.4
apache2: 2.0.55-4
mysql-server: 5.0_5.0.24a-9
posgresql-server: 8.1_8.1.4
php: 5.1.6
python: 2.4.3
ruby: 1.8_1.8.4-5
gnome: 2.16.1-0
sun-java: 1.5.0-08

Only slight manual intervention was requried for postgres which gives instructions during the upgrade to the console. Basically you just run pg_upgradecluster and remove pg 8.1 when it’s all looking good. To use the JDK package it can help to set JAVA_HOME to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun in your profile.