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ptrico
October 31st, 2009, 12:48 PM
Hi,

I'm currently using Hardy 8.04. I'd like to start the long chain of upgrades to 9.10.

For some reason, I don't have the "Software Sources" GUI tool available in System>Administration and have been unable to find how to install it via google and forums.

Can somebody point me in the right direction? What is the package that "Software Sources" comes with?

Thanks for your help

sliketymo
October 31st, 2009, 01:10 PM
Hi,

I'm currently using Hardy 8.04. I'd like to start the long chain of upgrades to 9.10.

For some reason, I don't have the "Software Sources" GUI tool available in System>Administration and have been unable to find how to install it via google and forums.

Can somebody point me in the right direction? What is the package that "Software Sources" comes with?

Thanks for your help

Word of caution: in-place upgrades do not always go well.If at all possible,you will have a much better experience downloading the .iso for the version you intend stopping at,burning it to disk,and doing a clean install.
If ,however,you decide to continue,you should be able to find what your looking for by going to: System>Administration>Software sources from your top panel.
It should be there,unless you have un-instaled it at some point.

Partyboi2
October 31st, 2009, 01:13 PM
To reinstall Software Sources you can open a terminal and

sudo apt-get --reinstall install ubuntu-desktopthis should reinstall any packages you maybe missing.

donato roque
October 31st, 2009, 04:22 PM
It's a lot less hassle if you download the Ubuntu 9.10 iso from this link (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download).
Then do a clean install. Here are links on how to do a clean install (https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/index.html).

ptrico
November 1st, 2009, 09:42 AM
To reinstall Software Sources you can open a terminal and
Code:
sudo apt-get --reinstall install ubuntu-desktop
this should reinstall any packages you maybe missing. Thanks Partyboi2, with your instruction I was able to determine that the package is software-properties-gtk (http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/software-properties-gtk)

To sliketymo and donato roque, thanks for your suggestions. This computer is a server without a CD/DVD drive, so a network upgrade was all I could do. In any case, I upgraded to 8.10, 9.04 and finally 9.10. Everything seems to be working fine!