[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu upgrade worked

Emanuel R e.rasolof at flowingsun.org
Sun Jun 7 11:34:45 PDT 2009


Thank you everyone for your helpful suggestions.
Andrew, it worked really well!
I was able to download and install all updates using the old-release
repositories.

For the record, in my sources.list file I first had to get rid of
sources such as

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe

and keep it strictly to the three line Andrew suggested to make it work.

One more question though:
I've always been a little reluctant to upgrade because I had spent so
much time tweaking and tunning my settings and drivers to make things
work on my ThinkPad T60p.  Are most settings kept intact in the course
of upgrade(s)?

Kyle had mentioned to back up "system/data". In addition to the "Home"
folder, what else should one backup?

Emanuel



Andrew wrote:
> Emanuel R wrote on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:03:44 -0700:
>
>   
>> I apparently missed the deadline for the 7.10 repository
>> support and now I am not able to download the latest software
>> updates for 7.10.
>>     
>
> When support ends for an Ubuntu release, that release is removed
> from the regular Ubuntu repositories (as you have discovered),
> but it doesn't disappear entirely. Instead, it gets put out to
> pasture in Ubuntu's "old-releases" repository. It no longer gets
> new security updates or bug fixes, but you can still access all
> of the release's packages as they were on the last day of
> support.
>
> To do this, you'll need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file
> (make a backup first). In it, you'll see lines like this:
>
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
>
> Change those to read:
>
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
>
> (You can also make these changes within a GUI package manager
> such as Synaptic, if you prefer.)
>
> Then update as usual and you will be as up-to-date with Gutsy as
> you can be. After that, you can follow Kyle's recommendation and
> upgrade to Hardy, then Intrepid, and finally Jaunty.
>
> Good luck, and please let us know how it went.
>
> By the way, for the Debian users on this list, Debian does the
> same thing -- only their "pasture" is archive.debian.org, so the
> lines in sources.list look like:
>
> deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ $RELEASE main contrib non-free
>
> A.
>
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