Upgrading from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04 issue

[Emilia]

Thank you very much Nils. I'll try a fresh install then!

Emilia

2012/10/28 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>

> Emilia wrote:
> > Hi everyone, i recently upgraded my Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 10.10 in
> > order to upgrade it later to Ubuntu 11.04 and then to the very last
> > version.
>
> You could have taken a much shorter route by directly upgrading from
> 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS - but unfortunately it is too late now.
>
> > The problem is that now I can't continue upgrading it and
> > i'm kind of stucked in Ubuntu 10.10 ...
> >
> > The error it throws when i try to upgrade says something like this
> > (sorry if my English is not that good):
> >
> > Not valid information about packages
>
> The problem with these ancient releases is that the repositories were
> moved from the standard server to old-releases.ubuntu.com. In the file
> /etc/apt/sources.list you should change the server names accordingly.
> Then the entries would look like this:
>
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted
> multiverse universe
>
> To edit the file you need root privilege. You can do it with a command
> like
>
> gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> in a terminal. And you will probably have to do the same for some more
> upgrades. For more details have a look at [1].
>
> But I would suggest that you save yourself a lot of time and do a fresh
> install of the latest version directly. Either 12.10 which was released
> a few days ago, or 12.04 LTS if you prefer to keep one release for a
> longer time. You can preserve the files in your home directory if you
> select manual partitioning and select the currently used partition(s)
> but NOT format them.
>
>
> Nils
>
> [1] <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades>
>
>
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