On 24 June 2013 19:41, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
I'm not sure that you did that the right way, I'd think you'd have to go 10.10 to 11.04 and then to 12.04LTS.
I believe the way you're supposed to do it is apt-get install update-manager-core and then sudo do-release-upgrade.
Indeed, but that relies on the repositories for 10.10 and 11.04 being available, which as they're EOL they're not. So apt-get update just gets me a load of 404 errors, and I can't install update-manager-core.
Maybe CD upgrades would work from old CDs but the machine is externally hosted so that's not an (easy) option, although maybe that could be achieved.
So, the correct way to do it is to not wait until the distro you have (and the one you want to upgrade to) are EOL :-)
That said, 10.04 LTS should upgrade directly to 12.04 LTS and my understanding is that there's nothing in particular stopping you upgrading via the method I outlined, just it's not tested and there are various things that might break and need working around. I'm certainly not recommending the approach but thus far it seems to have worked,
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