how to upgrade 10.04 to 10.10 maverick meerkat

What is your current operating system and version

What is your current operating system and version

 if you have ubuntu 10.04 in stalled do this .
go to system = admin. = software sources = tab updates and change from long term support to normal then update at the top of the page it will say upgrade to ubuntu 10.10 . click it ,

ubuntu 10.04

Please be sure your Ubuntu 10.04 is fully upgraded using a terminal:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

**Tip: right click with mouse on the top terminal windows title caption and select the menu item "Always on Top"
doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy
to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy from this page then right click and select copy then click into the terminal window
and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

Copy and paste the rows below, copy and paste one row a time (see the **Tip) then press enter:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then follow this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades#Upgrade from 10.04 LTS to 10.10