Kubuntu 6.06 to 8.04 upgrade via network

[Colin Pinkney]

Hi Andrew

On Saturday 17 May 2008, list at loampitsfarm.co.uk wrote:
> I chose to follow this method using konsole
> and "do-release-upgrade -d"
>
> as I have a hybrid installation with my wife a user with Gnome and
> myself with KDE but it all failed, I think getting the Gnome bits.
>
> here is a section where it failed
>
> "Yesterday 23:55:51
>    
> Failed to fetch
> http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-d
>ata_5.04-4ubuntu1_i386.deb 
> Unable to connect to gb.archive.ubuntu.com http: 
> Failed to fetch 

I had similar problems installing stuff last night and it seems  
gb.archive.ubuntu.com was completely down last night as it wasn't even 
responding to pings. It is back up again and if you try again it should be 
fine.

You can also switch to the 'main' server by changing gb.archive.ubuntu.com to 
just archive.ubuntu.com in your /etc/apt/sources.list , but it is best to 
keep it as the localised server if possible.

HTH

-- 
Colin Pinkney
http://www.cpinkney.org.uk