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Hello! I will be upgrading my Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 ( yes I am late, but still I want to upgrade). My Question: Will my Installed Applications remain wherever they are now after the up gradation? I will be using the ISO Images mounted on USB to upgrade ( there's an option: Upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 or Do A Fresh Installation ). Please Reply Soon, I can't wait to Upgrade!

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Short answer for : an in-place upgrade will try to keep your installed packages and settings, but it isn’t guaranteed — conflicts, obsolete packages and third‑party PPAs can stop some software from carrying forward. Before attempting anything, create reliable backups and a package list so you can restore quickly if the upgrade doesn’t go as planned.

Practical pre-upgrade checklist (do these first):

  • Full backup of /home and any config under /etc you care about.
  • Save a complete package list, your manual package list, and your apt sources/keys.
  • Disable or note third‑party PPAs and proprietary drivers (they often cause trouble).

Quick commands to capture state:

# backup home
sudo tar -czpf ~/home-backup-20260118.tar.gz /home/youruser

# save installed packages and manual list
dpkg --get-selections > ~/package-selections.txt
apt-mark showmanual > ~/manual-packages.txt

# backup apt sources and keys
mkdir -p ~/apt-sources-backup
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list ~/apt-sources-backup/
sudo cp -r /etc/apt/sources.list.d ~/apt-sources-backup/
sudo apt-key exportall > ~/apt-keys.asc

If you go forward with the upgrade: update the current 10.10 fully first, remove or disable non‑official repos, then run the upgrader or installer. If you end up doing a fresh install, restore packages with:

sudo dpkg --set-selections < ~/package-selections.txt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade

# or reinstall manual packages
xargs sudo apt-get install -y < ~/manual-packages.txt

For post-upgrade issues (desktop/login/display): switch to a TTY, check /var/log/dpkg.log and /var/log/syslog, boot recovery to remove offending packages or revert drivers. As and noted concerns about stability, the safest route for an important machine is to test the whole process in a VM or perform a fresh install to a separate partition and migrate your data—then restore packages from your saved lists.

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If you choose to upgrade, you'll lose some apps that was not supported with 11.04 but instead it'll install new apps that can work with new upgraded version.

If you choose fresh install, you'll get whole new apps ready up for you.

But I heard a lot of complains when users switch to 11.04 but it's your decision.

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There is Errors in Ubuntu 11.04.
One is that some times if we click on shut down it might LOG OUT instead of SHUT DOWN. In UBUNTU 11.04 we can't install GDM themes..

So check it out... before u install it.

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