Can't upgrade to 8.10 - Upgrade manager problems

[harryeddy]

Okay, so I'm trying to upgrade to 8.10. I went to the sources and selected show all dist upgrades. I started the upgrade and then had to cancel for other reasons. Now, when I run update manager, it does not show the dist upgrade. I followed instructions from another thread and ran
update-manager -cand got the following error:
current dist not found in meta-release file


Scary. What's up?

[Pumalite]

Run in the Terminal:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then upgrade after removing all third parties from your sources.list; including the Medibuntu folder if you have one.

[harryeddy]

Okay - I tried the commands, deselected all third-party sources, and got the same error. Help!:confused:

[Pumalite]

From what to 8.10 are you trying to update?

[harryeddy]

sorry for the long reply - I am running 8.04

[Pumalite]

This is the official method of upgrading:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

[harryeddy]

Yes, this was the method I tried...unfortunately, I still get the same error...:eek:

[Pumalite]

Maybe you should take a look at the 'Before You Start' notes and this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes