How to determine version of Ubuntu

[Joel Goguen]

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jack wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 17:08 -0400, cj wrote:
>> Yanni Enya wrote:
>>> Joel,
>>>
>>> I ran that command and got
>>>
>>> lsb_release -r
>>> Release:        6.06
>>>
>>> I installed all the updates and I still get 6.06.  Any ideas?
>>>
>>> I even downloaded the image file and burned it to a CD and was
>> unable
>>> to boot the system from the CD in order to install the 7.04
>> version. 
>>> How shall I try?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>> If you still have the CD image, you could try mounting it as a loop
>> and
>> ubuntu should detect that theres a new version of ubuntu available and
>> upgrade
>>
>> thats worked with me ever since ive started using ubuntu
>> --cj
> [snip]
> 
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list ...
> If the links there say 'Dapper' , you'll never get anything but 6.06
> updates.
> 
> sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list
> Password: <yourpassword>
> 
> When nano opens, change every instance of Dapper to Feisty
> Ctrl-X to save and exit
> 
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> sudo reboot
> 
> that will put you up to 7.01
> 
> repeat the process, except substitute Edgy for Feisty
> 
> that will put you up to 7.04
> 
Bad idea to skip over upgrading to Edgy first:

An example of this would be if your are running 6.06 (Dapper) and want
to upgrade to 7.04 (Feisty). You would have to first upgrade to 6.10
(Edgy), and then again to 7.04 (Feisty) or simply do a clean/fresh
install of 7.04 (Feisty)."

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes
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Joel Goguen
http://jgoguen.net/
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