Ubuntu Oneiric do-release-upgrade:
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:08 am
[PROBLEM]
I wanted to do upgrade a Xubuntu Oneiric (11.10) to the current LTS "Precise Pangolin" (12.04).
I've had my upgrade-manager (GUI) settings configured to:
Yet, no newer version to upgrade to was showing up in the GUI.
Since I do prefer commandline anyway, I entered the command:
Unfortunately (and suprisingly) it refused to do anything, but returned:
[SOLUTION]
Take a look at the contents of "/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades". The configuration in my case was set to:
...but the comment for the option "lts" said the following:
Save it and then run "do-release-upgrade" again. Now things worked.
I wanted to do upgrade a Xubuntu Oneiric (11.10) to the current LTS "Precise Pangolin" (12.04).
I've had my upgrade-manager (GUI) settings configured to:
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Notify me of a new Ubuntu version: For long-term support versionsSince I do prefer commandline anyway, I entered the command:
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sudo do-release-upgradeRunning it with the commandline parameter "-d" (for development / non-LTS versions), also returned the same: nothing.Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found
[SOLUTION]
Take a look at the contents of "/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades". The configuration in my case was set to:
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prompt=ltsSince my current version was NOT LTS, I modified it to:# lts - Check to see if a new LTS release is available. The upgrader
# will attempt to upgrade to the first LTS release available after
# the currently-running one. Note that this option should not be
# used if the currently-running release is not itself an LTS
# release, since in that case the upgrader won't be able to
# determine if a newer release is available.
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prompt=normal