Can I upgrade to Lion Server simply by buying and downloading it? My Mac Pro has OSX 10.5.8 I

I have OsX 10.5.8 on my MacPro1,1 DualCore Xeon 2,66 . Can I simply buy and download Lion, or do I need to do intermediate upgrades? Thanks...

You need 10.6.6 or later (10.6.8 recommended) to download and install Lion.
Snow Leopard is $30 from the online Apple Store, Lion is $29 to download from the App Store.
It may be possible to install directly from the Lion thumb drive ($69 from the online store) after partitioning and erasing the boot drive, but I'll leave that to someone who's done it.

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upgrade to Mountain Lion. With the exception of some new features,
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Hi Viaixtapa, well long story...
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