Upgrade Hardy Heron not detected

[Frog in the fog]

I am currently using the Gutsy Gibbon distribution on my laptop, and I would like to upgrade to Hardy Heron. I have tried to do it through the update manager, but I am told that my system is "up to date".

I have also tried by entering sudo apt-get update / sudo apt-get upgrade in a terminal but again, nothing is detected.

I connect to the internet through my university's wireless network. I can install softwares with synaptic, so it does not seem to be a connection problem.

Thanks in advance

[rogier.de.groot]

You have to do something special for a distribution upgrade; consult the docs - I think you have to replace your repos in /etc/apt/sources.list and then do "update-manager -d" or something, it'll be in the help pages somewhere.

[avtolle]

Have you seen http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#head-a0ae29eade9bae9df2a7e2eb9f3594b4e7b6f50d and followed the directions?

[flostre]

I have the same problem.


Have you seen http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#head-a0ae29eade9bae9df2a7e2eb9f3594b4e7b6f50d and followed the directions?

I read them. The problem is that the upgrade to the new distribution is not offered. I tried starting upgrade-manager -d and even upgrade-manager --dist-upgrade, but it didn't work. I'm still on Gutsy.

IIRC the button was there earlier, but I decided to wait a while to do the upgrade.

flostre

[Kevbert]

You can perform this via terminal with


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Please make sure you've backed everything up first as not all upgrades (Gutsy to Hardy) work.

[flostre]

You can perform this via terminal with

Don't you think it is a bug that I have to?

Edit: I had the same problem when updating to Feisty: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=505713

[Amarsingh0793]

Maybe Update Manager has not been set to tell you to install a Distro Upgrade. Check in Software Sources (System > Administration > Software Sources) and check your Update and Upgrade Settings.

[Kevbert]

What you should get is the attached screen/window. If you don't get this you have a bug.

[flostre]

Okay, then I have a bug.

[Andre-D]

same here, and the termanial-commands does not find any updates - nor does the GUI

[GooglieS]

I have the same problem on my 2nd computer! Trying to do something with that.

[GooglieS]

sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found

:(

[Amarsingh0793]

Run this following command (press Alt + F2):


update-manager -d

This will allow you to install the latest version.

Hope this Helps :)