Problems with upgrade to 10.04

Please try this method to upgrade
Open a terminal from applications→Accessories→Terminal and type

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade

give your user password when rwquested, you will not see any screen backchars when you type int then press enter

hth

Thanks. I will give that a try.

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Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:31 PM
To: Bushnell, Peter CAR
Subject: Re: [Question #117736]: Problems with upgrade to 10.04

Your question #117736 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/117736

    Status: Open => Answered

marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
Please try this method to upgrade
Open a terminal from applications→Accessories→Terminal and type

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade

give your user password when rwquested, you will not see any screen
backchars when you type int then press enter

hth

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this might sounds crazy, but i suggest u to do a clean install. download lucid newest version, n install it. the only problem is that you might worry bout lost of repo. you can back all ur installed softwares using these commands

Open a terminal and paste the following into it:

Code:
$ sudo apt-get install dpkg-repack fakeroot
$ mkdir ~/dpkg-repack; cd ~/dpkg-repack
$ fakeroot -u dpkg-repack `dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1`
(the last command will take some time)

Now if you scroll to your home folder, you should find a folder called "dpkg-repack" which should have all the deb files of all your installed packages.

RE-INSTALL
If you want to re-install the packages, navigate to the folder with the packages and input the following command in the terminal:
Code:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

basically you dont lose much then

Unfortunately, Marco's recommendation did not work. For some reason the install and upgrade commands are showing 0 install and upgrades. Then the release-upgrade command replies that no new release versions available. This looks like a bug to me. Any other suggestions for carrying out the update? Otherwise I will just do a clean install of 10.04. - Peter

Please go to menu System→Administration→Software Sources

[Ubuntu software] Download from: select main server
then from [updates] Release upgrade: set to normal

then please open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade

Then retry

I will try that this evening and let you know how it goes. Thanks.

This didn't work either. Still doesn't find the new release. I gave up and just installed 10.04 which is a vast improvement over 9.10. Thanks for trying to help with the upgrade. I will hold off for now on marking this as "problem solved," so you can see these comments.