How can I upgrade from 12.04 lts to raring?

[sonnet]

as per title I have installed 12.04 lts (only a cli system).
I'd like to know if there's a command or a method that would allow me to upgrade to Raring (raring daily cd do not seem to work on my pc)

[wojox]

Not directly, but if you upgrade to 12.10 you can easily upgrade to 13.04.

[ibjsb4]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...5#post12416435

[blackbird34]

You will have to upgrade to Quantal first.

 sudo apt-get install update-manager-core && sudo do-release-upgrade

Source

Raring Ringtail is a develpment release, so the command is slightly different. You need to already be running Quantal.

 sudo apt-get install update-manager-core && sudo do-release-upgrade -d

SOurce, same page as before.

[sonnet]

Sorry to be a pain in the chest,but i tried the command with a fresh installation(just to be safe) of Quantal (only the second part) and I got the bug illustrated here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/1077676

Any idea?

[kansasnoob]

Sorry to be a pain in the chest,but i tried the command with a fresh installation(just to be safe) of Quantal (only the second part) and I got the bug illustrated here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/1077676

Any idea?

Since you're open to fresh installs why not grab a fresh image here:

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/m...nes/243/builds

No doubt it's always a crap shoot because they're testing iso's but what the hay

[sonnet]

Since you're open to fresh installs why not grab a fresh image here:

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/m...nes/243/builds

No doubt it's always a crap shoot because they're testing iso's but what the hay

That was the initial plan, unfortunately I'm experiencing a nasty bug :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2097429

So I thought as alternative to install quantal and upgrade from there.
But again I 'm experiencing another bug again in upgrading.
It's all so depressing.

[kansasnoob]

That was the initial plan, unfortunately I'm experiencing a nasty bug :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2097429

So I thought as alternative to install quantal and upgrade from there.
But again I 'm experiencing another bug again in upgrading.
It's all so depressing.

Yeah, I hear ya'

I'm trying to figure out the depends and recommends for the gnome remix:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...8&postcount=13

Everything is rough right now. But that mini.iso does work if you're familiar with it.

[grahammechanical]

There is a standard method that we used when the new development cycle started. We took an updated Quantal and changed the software sources/repositories to Raring.

This is how I got my Raring install in the first place back in November. and being unable to get a Raring ISO image to work I converted a second Quantal just the other day. A lot of updates need to be done but it will still work.

sudo sed -i 's/quantal/raring/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

That changes the repositories. Follow it with the usual

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

I am planning later today to install Gnome Remix. That will be Quantal and then use this method to convert it to Raring. If it does not work in this case I can easily re-install the 12.10 Remix.

Regards.

[sonnet]

Followed that and it worked: though I needed dist-upgrade to pull in the kernel upgrade