[Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy

Nick Fox nfox at foxmediasystems.com
Thu Mar 26 22:30:39 CDT 2009


Whoops, by Hardy, I mean Intrepid. ;)

-Nick
> 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
>>>
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