how to upgrade from 10.04 to 13.04

Asked by Edward Benson

I have 10.04 with kernel upgrade to 2.6.38-10. how can i upgrade my system to 13.04? thanks your reply/help/advice a lot in advance, eric

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said :
#1

The simplest way would be to backup your personal data then do a clean install. Ubuntu has changed a lot between 10.04 and 13.04.

There is more information here
http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-old-unsupported-release

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Edward Benson (edward8) said :
#2

after i follow the link's suggestions, doing two commands:
(1) sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com\|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
(2) sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I got:
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Get:10 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources [2,347B]
Fetched 996kB in 11s (86.1kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Something wicked happened resolving 'us.old-releases.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)

W: Failed to fetch http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Something wicked happened resolving 'us.old-releases.ubuntu.com:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)
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my software source is (etc/apt/sources.list)
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# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)]/ lucid main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted
deb-src http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe
deb-src http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe
deb http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe
deb-src http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
deb-src http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
deb http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security multiverse
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please feel free to advice/suggestion/modify to help me achieve my goal, upgrade to 13.04 or 13.10(which is better)
thanks a lot in advance

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#3

My remarks:

1. The "sed..." command screwed up your sources.list, because you had a different starting point (with respect to contents of the sources.list) as the assumption was in the askubuntu question.

2. Are you sure that you want to upgrade to 13.04, and not only to 12.04 LTS? Apparently you haven't done any release upgrade for the past three and half years, and you have used the Long Term Support stable release so far. Are you really prepared to jump on the cutting-edge last version with the need to perform further release upgrades every 6 months?

Before I start giving instructions how to repair the current situation, I ask you to reconsider what you need and want.
I see the following possibilities for you:
1. perform an in-place upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 (will keep the system as close as possible to the look and feel that you are used to, might carry forward some weaknesses from the past).
2. perform an in-place upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 , and another one to 12.10 and another one to 13.04 (much effort, I would not recommend that at all)
3. perform a clean new installaton of 12.04 LTS (will provide a 'clean' system without legacy, doing a backup of all private files first strongly recommended)
4. perform a clean new installaton of 13.04 (or wait another week for the upcoming publication date and do a new installation of 13.10; remark similar to variant 3)

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