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Upgrade to 14.10

Asked by Inderjit Singh

I am running Ubuntu 13.04, recently aftre changing the update settings for notification for any new version, I got the upgrade option in the 'Software Updater'. I started upgrade which failed /stopped two three time due to internet problem. I got sone 1400 packages out of 1800 ( Approx) packages of the new version. Subsequently, during my next attempts for upgrade , I am not getting the upgrade option and receiving the mesage the software is upto date.What went wrong I do not know,please guide me.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You cannoty upgrade directly from 13.04 to 14.10, you need to upgrade to 13.10, then from 13.10 to 14.04, then from 14.04 to 14.10

This takes a LOTof time and a lot of data. Due to the number of upgrades Iwould guess at the OS being a real mess.

Isuggest you wipe Ubuntu (In whatever state it is in) from your system and do a clean install of 14.04. 14.04 (codenamed Precise)is LTS and supported til April 2019.

14.10 (codenamed Utopic)is not LTSand is only supported til July 2015. After which you will be in the EXACT same situation you are in now.

You can restore your user data from your backups

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

Please open a terminal window and issue the following commands:

uname -a
lsb_release -a
sudo apt-get update

then select all output and paste into this question document that we can see.

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Inderjit Singh (inderjit67) said : 		#3

Sorry I am running 14.04.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Can you please give the output of the 3 commands that Manfred Hampl posted.

Thanks

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Inderjit Singh (inderjit67) said : 		#5

I am unable to paste- the out put is as under-
Linux luckyvicky 3.13.0-40-generic #Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 13 17:53:56 UTC 2014 X
86_64 x86_64 X86_64 GNU/Linux
Second Commans-
No LSB modules are available
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Third command-
Fetched 1,4,92 kb in 2 min 26 s
Reading package lists .... Done

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Ok, run:

sudo gedit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Change:
Prompt=lts

To:
Prompt=normal

Then run:
sudo do-release-upgrade

And you will upgrade to 14.10

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Inderjit Singh (inderjit67) said : 		#7

I have upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 from 14.04 , as per your commands,but now,
I am unable to open launchpad.Please guide me, as I am unable to contact
through launchpad.When I am clicking the launchpad one blank screen appears.

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:51 PM, actionparsnip <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #258652 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/258652
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Ok, run:
>
> sudo gedit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
>
> Change:
> Prompt=lts
>
> To:
> Prompt=normal
>
> Then run:
> sudo do-release-upgrade
>
> And you will upgrade to 14.10
>
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Inderjit Singh (inderjit67) said : 		#8

This solved my problem, but I am unable to open launchpad.I opened this launchpad through the link provided on my mail address.Please guide me.