No "New Distribution Avaliable" message in 7.10

[linuxNewb]

I have been using Ubuntu 7.10 for far to long because I cannot use the update manager for a dist-upgrade. There is no "New Distribution Available" message. I'm sure that this is an easy fix, but I cannot find it anywhere.

I'm now upgrading the "old-school" way with:


sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
change every word gutsy to hardy (be sure to leave the # in front of cd)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

So far, so good. I'll report any problems that I encounter, if any.

Does anyone know what might have caused the "New Distribution Available" message to not show up in the update-manager?

[aysiu]

I believe you need to run the command
gksu "update-manager -d" to get that to appear.

[cariboo]

I used the search and replace function in gedit when I upgraded from hardy to intrepid, it worked quite well.

Note: this was just after the repositories had opened and the update-manger -d option didn't work.

Jim