I am running lucid, and would like to upgrade to precise. I have changed the settings in Update Manager to "Long term support releases only", but I only get the option "New Ubuntu release '10.10' is available". I thought it was possible to upgrade directly from one LTS to the next (i.e. go direct from lucid to precise). Is that right, or would I have to go through all the intermediate versions?
To add some extra details, running "lsb_release -a" gives:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
In /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades I have Prompt=lts
Running do-release-upgrade gives the output:
Checking for a new ubuntu release
Failed Upgrade tool signature
Failed Upgrade tool
Done downloading
Failed to fetch
Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem.
Carlos.
Best Answer
In shell, this is just a simple
apt-get
command. First update the lists and upgrade any packages:And then upgrade your distribution:
(Might take a while!)
If that doesn't work you need to use update manager:
Can you confirm you're on Lucid:
Should report four lines with
10.04
andlucid
in there. Next thing is you need upgrade manager to move to the next LTS, not 10.10 which you mention above...vi /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
Try and run
do-release-upgrade again
, if you could paste out the actual fail message (in your Q) it'd be helpful too.