Dist Upgrade

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 11/2/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Dist Upgrade
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 5:29 PM
> On 11/02/2009 03:17 PM, Emil Payne
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > NoOp wrote:
> >> On 11/02/2009 12:06 PM, Emil Payne wrote:
> >> ..
> >>> What the heck is lenny doing in there?  I
> don't see lenny in my 
> >>> repository lists anywhere.
> >>>
> >>> Dell-Mint john # apt-get update
> >>> Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org
> karmic-proposed-updates Release.gpg
> >>> Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org lenny
> Release.gpg [1032B]
> >> 
> >> Umm... why is your repository target set for
> us.debian.org?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > I don't know.  I used synaptic to re-install
> update-manager in case 
> > there was a problem and it wiped out all my third
> party repositories 
> > like medibuntu, so I just used it bare hoping to get
> an upgrade. 
> > Synaptic showed no new upgrades or even updates, but
> update-manager 
> > showed a bunch of upgrades.  Now it is telling me
> things like it is 
> > unable to upgrade from lenny to jaunty. 
> etc/apt/sources.list and 
> > ./sources.list.saves all have "karmic" listed as the
> distro.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Doesn't matter if it says karmic etc., at this point. You
> need to change
> from us.debian.org. Use System|Administration|Software
> Sources|Ubuntu
> Software and change the 'Download from:' to 'Main server',
> then 'Close',
> then 'Reload'. You can of course modify sources.list, but
> for now I'd
> just recommend you use the above.
> 
> Now, from a terminal (get out of root mode and go back to a
> standard
> user mode):
> 
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update && apt-get update
> 
> and let us know the result.
> 

Do you not mean:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
instead.  IME, the second command will not run without root privileges and I don't think you want to run update twice.  HTH, 
> 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net