[Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy

Nick Fox nfox at foxmediasystems.com
Thu Mar 26 22:21:22 CDT 2009


Are you trying to get to gutsy specifically or just upgrade to stable 
release?

If you want to get to Hardy, you can do 'sudo update-manager -c' and it 
will take care of everything.

-Nick
> I meant to add that I have used that too with the same results.
>
> -Nate 
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
>> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:27 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Nathan C. Smith 
>> <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I can run apt-get update but when I do apt-get dist-upgrade 
>>>       
>> it switches some of the prerequists-sources.list back to 
>> us.archive....
>>     
>> by the way, there's a "better" way to upgrade... use 
>> do-release-upgrade
>>
>> It does the apt-get stuff for you and has special rules built in that
>> helps it handle some of the odd cases where apt-get asks you a
>> thousand questions or fights with dependencies. This is the command
>> line equiv of
>>
>> update-manager --dist-upgrade
>>
>> -- 
>> Matthew Nuzum
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