Submitted by Ron on Mon, 2015/04/27 - 03:07
For this project, the goal is to update a remote Ubuntu 10.04 system running good ol' Gnome 2.x (of course) to Ubuntu 14.04 with Mate desktop (a fork of Gnome 2.x) instead of Unity.
The command "do-release-upgrade" will be the method, with some PPAs added at the end to bring in the Mate desktop on to the system.
A slight complication is that there are limitations on the free space on the root partition.
Further more, the host is about 5,000 km away and owned by someone without technical experience or much sysadmin ability to fix anything that goes wrong.
All access on the eventual target will be via ssh through a VPN which auto-connects back to this host, so we'll do this work via ssh to the VM.
