[ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

[David Jones]

On 26/05/2010 12:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope<alan at popey.com>  wrote:
>> On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley<rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I have checked this several times. According to the settings it
>>> should show LTS releases.
>> What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps
>> here:- e.g.
>> alan at bishop:~$ lsb_release -a
>> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>> Description:    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
>> Release:        10.04
>> Codename:       lucid
>
> rowan at ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
> Release:	9.04
> Codename:	jaunty
>
> I tried switching to the main server from the UK server but no
> difference. I've burned a copy of 10.04 LTS to a CD-R, though.
>
>

As you're on 9.04 which isn't a LTS version, you will need to upgrade 
firstly to 9.10 and then 10.04 if you use the automatic update facility.

Within update manager, you should see a notification that a new version 
is available, but it'll refer to 9.10 and won't offer 10.04 until the 
upgrade to 9.10 is done.

As it says at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes, "To avoid 
damaging your running system, upgrading should only be done from one 
release to the next release (e.g. Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10) or from 
one LTS release to the next (e.g. Ubuntu 6.06LTS to Ubuntu 8.04LTS). If 
you wish to 'skip' a version, you can backup your data and do a fresh 
installation, or progressively upgrade to each successive version."

It is possible to miss a version during upgrades, but its normally not 
recommended as it can break thinigs.

Hope that helps

Dave