Upgrading to 11.04 - Desktop

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Sat Apr 30 17:43:58 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 16:46 +0100, 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.
> 
> A second attempt with do-release-upgrade produced "Checking for a new 
> ubuntu release" and then nothing for more than the 15 minutes that my 
> patience lasted.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts? (other than a fresh installation, please :-))
> 
> Peter HB
> 

I got this. The thing to do is to find another server. I did this with
update Manager.  Click Settings and when in Software Sources, on the
Ubuntu Software tab, select Other in Download from: then click Select
Best Server. http://ubuntu.retrosnub.co.uk/ubuntu seems to be the
favourite.

Tony







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