Upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:39:44 AM Mark Fraser wrote:
> I've just tried upgrading my laptop from Kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 (64 bit) and
> encountered a few problems:
> 1) update-manager wasn't installed.
> 2) upon running update-manager -d from Kicker, I was asked for a password. I
> typed in the password I set up when I installed Kubuntu 11.04, but was told
> that it was incorrect. Which password is it asking for?

you can try either
update-manager-kde -d
or 
do-release-upgrade -d

I don't know why your password isn't working, are you logged in to the account 
it is associated with?

clay