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upgrading through update manager

Asked by joshfan

tried to upgrade through update mang to the 8.04 and it messed my system up so someone on here suggested doing it through the terminal using:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

which i did and got this:

david@david-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for david:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
david@david-desktop:~$

does this mean i can not upgrad with out wiping my drive and reinstalling with 8.04 CD i really don't want to if i do not have to.

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Isak Frants (isakfrants) said : 		#1

sudo update-manager -d ?
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

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Mark McKibben (manzabar) said : 		#2

I've never had much luck with the update-manager for doing upgrades. My process tends to be:
1. sudo aptitude update
2. sudo update-manager -d
3. sudo aptitude upgrade
4. sudo aptitude autoclean
5. sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
6. Repeat Step 5 until it says there's nothing left to upgrade.
7. sudo dpkg --configure -a
8. sudo aptitude -s -f install

Note: aptitude is my preferred variant of apt, see the following article as to why I think it's better:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/aptitude

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joshfan (dbyrns) said : 		#3

OK followed your steps with the aptitude in terminal since the other did not work and it ends up with doing alot of stuff but in the end it ends with:

david@david-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for david:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
david@david-desktop:~$

apperently i guess it thinks it has been upgraded and it has not, so i guess i will just be using 7.10 for a while.

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Mark McKibben (manzabar) said : 		#4

@joshfan: If after all those steps it still doesn't see anything to upgrade, maybe you need to double-check that your /etc/apt/sources.list shows hardy for all repos rather than gusty?

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joshfan (dbyrns) said : 		#5

 went in and not sure what i am looking for so took screen shots and put them up for you to see. an the source list be changed?

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk23/joshfantoo/Screenshot-SoftwareSources.png

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk23/joshfantoo/Screenshot-SoftwareSources-1.png

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk23/joshfantoo/Screenshot-SoftwareSources-2.png

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joshfan (dbyrns) said : 		#6

ok got a new massage during this, another install it says something about dbus not starting how do i fixs dbus.

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joshfan (dbyrns) said : 		#7

 OK i have one more bit of info it actually ran a distribution upgrade but it said it could only do a partial upgrade so i am total confused, And ready to give, up maybe i should just leave well enough alone and stay with 7.10 for now.

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Isak Frants (isakfrants) said : 		#8

You have Gutsy sources. As Manzabar says, maybe you should change them to Hardy.

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Change all "gutsy" into "hardy".

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joshfan (dbyrns) said : 		#9

Ok i changed the source.list.save and tryed to save it so my changes would stay but a box came up with a red slash saying:

Could not save the file /etc/apt/sources.list.save.

You do not have the permissions necessary to save the file. Please check that you typed the location correctly and try again.

how do i get permitions

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Best bhuvi (bhuvanesh) said : 		#10

you need to be root to modify system files.
alternatively you can use the command sudo which emulates the root account.

open a terminal and type:
sudo nautilus
and give your password,note that your password will not be echoed in screen.
after giving the password a nautilus window will appear browse through the file and modify it using text editor
now you will be able to save the changes.
be careful to backup the files you are modifying

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joshfan (dbyrns) said : 		#11

Thanks bhuvi, that solved my question.