Problem with Ubuntu Natty

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 21:59:35 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Donald Talbert <donaldtalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 15:57 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Your anger and blame are misdirected. Unless you've hit some BIG bug,
>> there's no way that 10.04 would prompt you to upgrade to 11.04 because
>> (1) there's no direct upgrade path through update-manager (GUI or CLI)
>> to skip a release and (2) an LTS release won't prompt you to upgrade
>> to a non-LTS release by default (you'd have to change the
>> update-manager settings). I suspect that you've forgotten that you'd
>> upgraded to 10.10 at some point!
>
> Same here I was upgrading my girl's laptop from 10.04 to 10.10 and it
> wouldn't update the distro unless you changed a few settings. Now my
> 10.10 server keeps asking me if I want to update to 11.04 but, thats not
> a LTS release, like you said.

If you'd rather not be prompted to upgrade, you can either edit
"/etc/update-manager" and set "Prompt=never" or launch the Update
Manager GUI, click on settings, click on the "Updates" tab, and choose
"Never" as the "Release upgrade" option.




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