Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

[Ori Idan]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12 locally with
> Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and
> I also thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe
> even 3, so I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the
> upgrade, Django didn't work and I couldn't even run migrations (with
> South). I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in
> my home directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
> files that I backed up. My questions are:
>
> 1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu 14.04?
> 2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after upgrading to
> 14.04 and still keep all the files in my home directory, while not keeping
> all the other files (the operating system files)?
>
Why do you think it is not possible?  I do it all the time.
I  keep my home directory in a separate partition so when I upgrade (or
downgrade) the OS the home directory stays the same.

-- 
Ori Idan
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