12.04 keeps wanting to upgrade to 12.10?

[TheGuyWithTheFace]

So, I decided I would stick with 12.04 for now, instead of upgrading to 12.10, but for some reason, I cannot install updates anymore. When I check the Update Manager, I get a message saying that "Not all updates can be installed", and that I should run a partial upgrade. When I click that box and enter my password, I see a distribution Upgrade window. The problem is, I just want to install the usual security patches and bug fixes, not a new operating system! What should I do?

(Also, I'm running 64 bits)

[Bartender]

I'm not sure why your rig is wanting to go to the latest version of Ubuntu when you don't want it to.

I do know that sometimes the Update Manager gets stuck. In that case, open a terminal and type or paste this command...

sudo apt-get update

Hit Enter, type in password, let it run

Then type or paste this command...

sudo apt-get upgrade

I've used those two commands to un-stick Update Mgr. before. This will only update your installation, NOT try to go to the latest version.

Here's a short explanation of apt-get, which explains those two commands in a bit more detail.

Oh, cool, here are instructions for upgrading to a newer version from the command line. That's NOT what you want to do, of course. Notice these are completely different commands.

[ibuclaw]

Open System Settings, navigate to Software Sources, and remove any unwanted repositories. The Updates tab would be of relevance to you too.

[Isamu715]

In update manager go to "Settings...". Change the option "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version" to either "Never" or "For long-term support versions".

[TheGuyWithTheFace]

Then type or paste this command...

sudo apt-get upgrade

Apt-get update worked fine, but Apt-get upgrade outputted this:

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  bamfdaemon dpkg-dev g++ gcc gwibber gwibber-service gwibber-service-facebook
  gwibber-service-twitter indicator-appmenu libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libbamf0
  libbamf3-0 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libc6-i386 libquadmath0 shotwell
  skype:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
  build-essential fakeroot google-chrome-unstable gwibber-service-identica
  jupiter libindicator-messages-status-provider1 linux-libc-dev manpages-dev
  unsettings
9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 39.1 MB/41.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 14.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
 'Lubuntu 12.10 _Quantal Quetzal_ - Release amd64 (20121017.1)'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter

I'm not sure why it's asking for Quantal CD rom, but I don't think that's a good sign, eh?

I looked in software sources, and unchecked the Quantal Quetzl cd rom, then noticed under the "updates" tab that no update checkboxes were checked (precise-security, precise-updates, etc). I also made sure that "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version" was only set to "For long term support versions".

I ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, and that worked, but when I open the update manager, I still get that partial upgrade message. Any thoughts?

[ibuclaw]

I ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, and that worked, but when I open the update manager, I still get that partial upgrade message. Any thoughts?

Sometimes with new packages, you have to wait until it's dependencies have been released into the repository before you can upgrade them. Apart from security updates, there's usually no need to upgrade immediately to the latest packages. So one could always have the benefit of the doubt and wait until a later time to upgrade your system.

Out of curiosity, what is being shown in the upgrade manager as being held?

[TheGuyWithTheFace]

I'm not sure what you mean by "held", but it shows "Important security updates", "Other updates (LP-PPA-webapps-preview)", and "Other updates (Canonical)" all as checked, but everything beneath those headers is unchecked, and I can't check or uncheck anything.

Also, I did wait a bit before starting this thread just in case it was a one-time issue, but this has been going on for a few weeks now.

[arpanaut]

You may want to try

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

but pay attention to what the output of the terminal is.
If the system wants to remove some packages abort the operation by typing n and pressing enter and then post the output from the command here.
If there are no issues and the the terminal is showing all of the possible updates ready to go type y and pressing enter the updates should complete in good order.

This should clear up your issues with update-manager. If there are any errors or unusual output please post here.

And NO dist-upgrade will not upgrade the distribution release.
See:

man apt

[LuisGMarine]

Apt-get update worked fine, but Apt-get upgrade outputted this:

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  bamfdaemon dpkg-dev g++ gcc gwibber gwibber-service gwibber-service-facebook
  gwibber-service-twitter indicator-appmenu libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libbamf0
  libbamf3-0 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libc6-i386 libquadmath0 shotwell
  skype:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
  build-essential fakeroot google-chrome-unstable gwibber-service-identica
  jupiter libindicator-messages-status-provider1 linux-libc-dev manpages-dev
  unsettings
9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 39.1 MB/41.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 14.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
 'Lubuntu 12.10 _Quantal Quetzal_ - Release amd64 (20121017.1)'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter

I'm not sure why it's asking for Quantal CD rom, but I don't think that's a good sign, eh?

I looked in software sources, and unchecked the Quantal Quetzl cd rom, then noticed under the "updates" tab that no update checkboxes were checked (precise-security, precise-updates, etc). I also made sure that "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version" was only set to "For long term support versions".

I ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, and that worked, but when I open the update manager, I still get that partial upgrade message. Any thoughts?

Try these commands to clean your system up:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean

Then run:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

if no errors try running the update manager again and see if the problem continues.

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/80895...-upgrade-error

[TheGuyWithTheFace]

Arpanaut, Here's the output from sudo apt-get dist upgrade:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libgwibber-gtk2 libgwibber2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  account-plugin-facebook account-plugin-twitter gir1.2-accounts-1.0
  gir1.2-signon-1.0 libaccount-plugin-1.0-0 libaccounts-glib0 libaccounts-qt1
  libgwibber-gtk3 libgwibber3 libqjson0 libsignon-extension1 libsignon-glib1
  libsignon-plugins-common1 libsignon-qt1 libunity-webapps0
  linux-headers-3.2.0-34 linux-headers-3.2.0-34-generic
  linux-image-3.2.0-34-generic signon-keyring-extension signon-plugin-oauth2
  signon-ui signond skype-bin:i386 unity-webapps-service
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bamfdaemon gwibber gwibber-service gwibber-service-facebook
  gwibber-service-twitter indicator-appmenu libbamf0 libbamf3-0 linux-generic
  linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic shotwell skype:i386
13 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 86.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 223 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

As you said, I aborted because it wanted to remove packages.

LuisGMarine, I tried those commands, but I still got that partial upgrade message...