[ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

[John Matthews]

Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> 2009/10/14  <Darren.Mansell at opengi.co.uk>:
>   
>> Hi everyone. I’m running update-manager –c –d on a Jaunty machine and it’s
>> telling me everything is up to date, doesn’t seem to acknowledge there’s a
>> new development release available.
>>
>>
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>> Any ideas on how I can force it? Don’t really want to sed the sources.list
>> and dist-upgrade.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m behind a proxy but I have $http_proxy set  and also have it set in
>> Gnome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Darren
>>
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>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I had this before when running update-manager -d. It seemed to work
> once I'd reloaded the sources a couple of times, then ran
> update-manager -d again. IIRC it took a couple of seconds for the box
> to appear saying Karmic was available. Probably also worth checking if
> you're using the gb mirror or the main archive; not sure if it makes
> any difference but I've often found problems magically disappear when
> I use the plain archive.ubuntu.com.
>
>   
Hi, I am having the same problem, its not showing up. I dont know what 
you mean by 'running update-manager -d'. Not heard of that before. Is 
there a command I can use to update, so that Karmic shows in the 
archive. I am using the Main Archive.

John