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Update manager does not show availability of 7.10

Asked by JMO Mandia

I tried sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences but it replied "No such file or directory."

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MoMaT (momat) said : 		#1

You may try something similar to the upgrade procedure for ubuntu-server (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading):
do-release-upgrade -d

Does it tell you that there is a new distribution upgrade available?

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JMO Mandia (jmomandia) said : 		#2

Thank you so much! I used ubuntu-server upgrade and it worked perfectly!

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Best MoMaT (momat) said : 		#3

Great. So the solution was:
sudo do-release-upgrade

Could you please close the question by marking it as "solved"?

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JMO Mandia (jmomandia) said : 		#4

Thanks heaps! sudo do-release-upgrade did the job.