[ubuntu-uk] How does update-manager -d decide whether to offerupgrade?

[Darren Mansell]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:11 +0100, Pete Stean wrote:
> I've never had any luck with this command. What I did this last time
> was manually change the distribution in /etc/apt/sources.list and
> then run 'sudo apt-get update' and then 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' (I
> replaced all the references to 'feisty' to read 'gutsy' in my sources
> list. Note, however that the only non-standard repository I had in
> there was the official google one, which isn't version specific) 
>  
> Pete
> 
>  
> On 31/08/2007, Chris Jones <chris.jones at canonical.com> wrote: 
>         Hi
>         
>         Kris Marsh wrote:
>         > and then try update-manager -d again?
>         
>         running it with -c as well may help 
>         
>         Cheers,
>         --
>         Chris Jones
>         cmsj at canonical.com
>           www.canonical.com

> 
Yep update-manager hasnt worked for me a few times with Gutsy so I run:

sudo sed -i s/feisty/gutsy/g /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get
update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y