Problem during upgrade from 08.04 LTS to 19.04.1 LTS **HELP**

[Nils Kassube]

MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> 
wrote:
> > I am attempting to upgrade one of my systems from 08.04 LTS (all
> > updates have been applied). However, after completing the download
> > (1702 files) the following message appears:
> > 
> > Error during commit.
> > E:Couldn't configure pre-depend jre for
> > openoffice.org-writer2latex, probably a dependence cycle.'
> > Restoring original system state.
> 
> I've heard that upgrading more than one release is a bad idea,
> especially with Ubuntu.  

Not exactly. LTS releases are an exception from the rule and this 
upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04.1 LTS would be a supported route [1]. 

@Jay: I would uninstall the package openoffice.org-writer2latex, try the 
upgrade again and install that package again after the upgrade.


Nils

[1] <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades>