upgrade januty to lucid

johnh10000 · 11-14-2010, 04:34 AM

Ok b4 you ask, I am running Maverick on my daily box, and am having a few teathing problems with samba. Like it won't start, and I now have to shut down firestarter. Apart from that it works.

So on my server box, I don't want to be without a firewall.

Ok, here;s the question, how do I do the upgrade from a command line? or come to that the gui. but I want lucid.

Simon Bridge · 11-14-2010, 04:47 AM

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid
Lucid is LTS so it is still in support.

but you are advised to use System > Administration > Update Manager and with luck it will show you that a new distro is available.

If you have a lucid CD, just put it in the drive with jaunty running and a dialog asks if you want to update.

By CLI

edit /etc/apt/sources.lst and change where it says "jaunty" to say "lucid".

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

warning: this last can be a nasty hack these days. Expect to do post-upgrade configuration. As always, make a backup.

johnh10000 · 11-14-2010, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Simon Bridge

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid
Lucid is LTS so it is still in support.

but you are advised to use System > Administration > Update Manager and with luck it will show you that a new distro is available.

I was thinking it would only show me maveric

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If you have a lucid CD, just put it in the drive with jaunty running and a dialog asks if you want to update.

what a good idea, I'd forgoten it does that on a disk

Quote:

By CLI

edit /etc/apt/sources.lst and change where it says "jaunty" to say "lucid".

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

warning: this last can be a nasty hack these days. Expect to do post-upgrade configuration. As always, make a backup.

Cheers thanks for your help.

Simon Bridge · 11-14-2010, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by johnh10000

I was thinking it would only show me maveric

You can set it to only tell you about LTS releases.

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what a good idea, I'd forgoten it does that on a disk

Let us know how it works

johnh10000 · 11-14-2010, 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Simon Bridge

You can set it to only tell you about LTS releases.

Let us know how it works

will do. pruning a bit at the mo! no space left so making a bit of space!

Simon Bridge · 11-14-2010, 08:07 AM

Upgrading Jaunty or Karmic to Lucid

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

or use update manager:
sudo update-manager -d

the dist-upgrade method does not seem to need editing sources.list file. cute.
I didn't know about the first one.

johnh10000 · 11-14-2010, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Bridge

Upgrading Jaunty or Karmic to Lucid

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

or use update manager:
sudo update-manager -d

the dist-upgrade method does not seem to need editing sources.list file. cute.
I didn't know about the first one.

Well you can tell its a server box. don't use it directly. just discovered the cd drive in it didn;t work!! so have been faffing around with that.

Will try your suggestion. will report back!

Simon Bridge · 11-14-2010, 08:41 AM

That first one is the preferred method.
Gah! It's a server! Change mode:

sudo do-release-upgrade --mode="server"

(see man page)

Kenny_Strawn · 11-14-2010, 11:37 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...anywhere-3231/

Good luck.

The problem with Update Manager is that you *cannot* skip Karmic to upgrade from Jaunty to Lucid, for example. That's why adding the repositories manually is a much better idea.

johnh10000 · 11-14-2010, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Kenny_Strawn

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...anywhere-3231/

Good luck.

The problem with Update Manager is that you *cannot* skip Karmic to upgrade from Jaunty to Lucid, for example. That's why adding the repositories manually is a much better idea.

Then I will jump stright to Lucid?

Good luck!! I haven't even been drinking today, after I hadded a new HArd disk, I managed to format the wrong partion. Not good. Thank God for backups!

johnh10000 · 11-15-2010, 12:02 PM

Well, I tried the command line, upgrade mentioned above. It worked so far, then it crashed. Restart and all sorts of things were missing.

.....

A nice clean install from the Lucid disk. We got there in the end.
I must say I don't think it was Ubuntu's fault the upgrade broke, it was the state of the server.

Anyways all happy now. Just got to install the apps I forgot now.

Thanks again for your help!