This is an email from the aussie ubuntu list.  it describes a possible method of upgrading to feisty to gutsy w/o reinstalling or downloading the updates. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gabriel Noronha <<a href="mailto:noronha@westnet.com.au">noronha@westnet.com.au</a>> Date: Oct 21, 2007 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Upgrade] To: Daniel Moore <<a href="mailto:danomoore@gmail.com"> danomoore@gmail.com</a>> Cc: Ubuntu Mailing List <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> You can also try using the alternate CD to update from 7.04 to 7.10 Grap a iso from <a href="http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/ubuntu/releases/gutsy/">http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/ubuntu/releases/gutsy/</a>  one of the many iso mirrors link provided ^ select the alternate install disk for your processor download and burn to disk. put the disk into your drive and ubuntu should try and auto run the disk it will detect that it can update to 7.10 using the disk and away you go. it's a better way of updating multiple machines of if your isp doesn't give you a free ubuntu apt mirror but free iso downloads.. Gab On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 12:28 +1000, Daniel Moore wrote: > hmm > > Try the following David if you could: > Applications > Terminal > > Type/Copy Paste at the command prompt hitting enter after each line: > sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.backup > then > sudo sed -i 's/feisty/gutsy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list > then > sudo apt-get update > > After that's all completed, go back to System > Administration > > Update Manager and if it's not there already, click 'Check'. > > > We'll get there eventually! > > > Daniel > > > > On 10/21/07, david <<a href="mailto:daljo@gotalk.net.au">daljo@gotalk.net.au</a>> wrote: > > I did axactly what you wrote Daniel. > > the terminal automatically opened there was very breif action in the > > terminal (Too quick for me to read what was happening)and it closed. > > after this I checked update manager again. the same response as > > previously. > > david > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 11:50 +1000, Daniel Moore wrote: > > > Hi David > > > > > > When at your ubuntu desktop, try these commands > > > > > > Alt-F2 > > > In the listbox type > > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > > check the 'Run in terminal' tickbox > > > > > > Click run. > > > > > > > > > Let us know if this works. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/21/07, david <<a href="mailto:daljo@gotalk.net.au">daljo@gotalk.net.au </a>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > From: david <<a href="mailto:daljo@gotalk.net.au"> daljo@gotalk.net.au</a>> > > > > To: david <<a href="mailto:daljo@gotalk.net.au">daljo@gotalk.net.au</a>> > > > > Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:40:32 +1000 > > > > Subject: Re: Upgrade > > > >  Sorry,  I meant no 7.1 Gutsy. > > > > > > > > > > > > n Sun, 2007-10-21 at 10:30 +1000, david wrote: > > > > > Still no luck with upgrade! Ive been trying on and off since thursday. > > > > > > > > > > I do system update- Check. it responds by downloadinig 20 packages > > > > > I do synaptic package manager -Check. It responds by downloading 40 > > > > > packages. > > > > > I do gksu "update-manager -c -d" in terminal, it responds "warning could > > > > > not initiate dbus" yet this does intiate the update manager. > > > > > > > > > > Each time I do this the same thing happens. still no 7.4 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas would be gratefully received. > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > ubuntu-au mailing list > > > > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > > > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au </a> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> -- Matthew Rossi I am for Macs, and the open source scene, are you?  Read my blog at <a href="http://www.mattr.co.nr">www.mattr.co.nr </a>.  You can also find my podcast at <a href="http://www.penguincentral.co.nr">www.penguincentral.co.nr</a> Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) <a href="http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/455532"> http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/455532</a>