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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