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error message when trying to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10

Asked by Don

I open "run application" type in "update-manager-d" in order to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 and I receive message "location or file cannot be found". Can you determine my problem? I am a newbie. According to the Ubuntu web site I should receive instructions for installing the upgrade.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Before starting distribution update please be sure you have current release fully upgraded open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

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

Then be sure you have free space on your partitions check by tipyng, using terminal:

df -h

Then please be type careful when you type the command you forget the <space>:

on a free desktop press ALT+F2 and type

update-manager -d

the command is update-manager <space> -d

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/upgrade-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-to-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-beta.html

Hope this helps

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

By the way i have tried to upgrade a Ubuntu 8.04 pc to 8.10 right now and i get and error due a transient repository upgrade.

To get fully upgrade i doing this:

Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" to Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid"

Yuo must be connected to the net the process will download an lot of pachages upgrades from the net.

Please also be sure to have 1 giga of free space to be sure the updgrade process works good.

To check free space open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

First clean old cached packages, type:

sudo apt-get clean

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

Then to check free space:

df -h

To start release upgrade

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

sudo sed -i "s/hardy/intrepid/g" /etc/apt/sources.list

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

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get clean

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

Then to check your new ubuntu version:

lsb_release -a

Hope this helps

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Don (dons1634-comcast) said : 		#3

Information was right on! Now have 8.10 installed. Thank you for the help.

Don