Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha

Yesterday I upgrade my Ubuntu Gutsy install to the latest 8.04 Alpha (#4 I believe). First I was planning to do a clean install from a freshly downloaded ISO, but then I decided to see if an upgrade would work.

This turned out te be pretty easy. I haven't worked long on 8.04 yet, but have yet to encounter problems. I guess the upgrade went pretty smooth.

First edit your sourcelist:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
replace gedit with your favorite text editor. I used gedit because I have no idea wether nano has an easy replace function. In the sources.list file, replace every gutsy with hardy. This will make sure that when you do the next apt-get update, it will connect to the hardy repos.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Now it will install everything which is needed to upgrade your current 7.10 install to the 8.04 alpha. After apt-get is finished, reboot et voila! You can now try the latest Ubuntu.