Do you really have to buy snow leopard in store to upgrade to Lion?

I have heard that you DO NOT need to purchase a retail version of Snow Leopard (at the store) to upgrade to Lion.  Do you know if this is true?  I am on OS 10.5 Leopard.  Thanks so much!!!!

You cant upgrade straight from 10.5 to 10.7.
Anyway you have to upgrade to 10.6.8 first.
Alternative you can perform a "from the scratch" install of 10.7 and restore your personal data from a image, external drive, target mode Mac or TimeMachine backup.
For that you need a bootable disk or usb thumb drive with Lion.
Lupunus

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