Upgrading to 11.04 - Desktop

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 30/04/2011 17:10, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> Well, I decided to upgrade a test machine to 11.04 to see what all
>> the fuss was about with unity and fell at the first hurdle. Using
>> Update Manager it produced a message stating "Could not download
>> release notes". This is consistent across several machines,
>> suggesting a faulty URL somewhere.
>
> Are those machines all running 10.10 now? If you want to upgrade
> from 10.04, it is a bit more complicated and you should upgrade to
> 10.10 first.

Thanks for responding, but my attempt at brevity left out the obvious, 
namely that I'm already running a fully updated 10.10 on all machines.

Since my post I've managed to get do-release-upgrade working - I had 
assumed that a root terminal would be functionally equivalent to sudo in 
a user terminal, but alas not. It's working just fine since I closed 
root and tried again via sudo in a user terminal! There must be a 
contextual element somewhere.

The original problem still stands, namely that the upgrade cannot be 
performed via Update Manager. As this potentially affects other users it 
would be useful to understand the cause.

Peter HB