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Whats the easiest way to upgrade to 12.04 LTS from 11.10? Thanks a lot!

seclorum 15y ago
Boot from the disk and tell it to upgrade your 11.10 installation, saving your /home folder and so on. I did exactly this on two workstations and found it works quite well ..
- levesque 15y ago
  Is there any reason why you choose to boot from a disk? Normally you can upgrade from within your own installation without problems.
  - vibrunazo 15y ago
    To me, it's good to have a disk with the last version of ubuntu in case I need it. So if I download the disk and boot from it, I'll only download it once, versus downloading the iso + downloading the upgrade. Also, the upgrade to a new version famously have many problems. I just tried it and it crashed in the middle :S
  - seclorum 15y ago
    I just boot from disk so I can get the upgrade done as quickly as possible. This way, my machine does everything it needs to upgrade, without anything else going on. Then when its done, I let it update in the background while I make sure everything went smoothly. In this case, it went very smoothly for me, and was worth the hassle. I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04, which had been rather a bit of a mess actually, in the Unity/Gnome3/fvwm shell department, as in I had them all and had to switch around to get certain things I liked. Unity crashed too often (in 11.04) for me to trust it. That has all changed. I am now running Ubuntu studio, which features fvwm, and nothing else. Gnome only if I truly need it, and Unity .. after the dust settles. So I'm quite comfortable in my upgrade to 12.04, and everything works like it should - full multi-channel digital audio, multi-monitor support with acceleration, and so on.
- Random_Person 15y ago
  I roasted my Xubuntu desktop today doing this. Wiped my Windows partition as well. I'm not sure why it hung, I left work before I could test things and research.
stevoo 15y ago
sudo do-release-upgrade The fastest way to do it from the shell
- sidchilling 15y ago
  In the update manager, it is not showing that a new version is available.
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    It will, as soon as the release data percolate through the mirror network and reaches the mirror you are using.
- stevoo 15y ago
  or ... press the super key type : update-manager and it will tell you there is an upgrade on top. Hit the upgrade button....
- sidchilling 15y ago
  Do I absolutely have to install updates of 11.10 before I can upgrade to 12.04? The steps on the ubuntu sites says so.
  - wccrawford 15y ago
    I'm pretty sure in the past that the upgrade software itself was updated, so you have to update the old packages first to make sure the new stuff installs properly. At any rate, better safe than sorry.
duck 15y ago
Alt-F2 and then 'update-manager -d'

Boot from the disk and tell it to upgrade your 11.10 installation, saving your /home folder and so on. I did exactly this on two workstations and found it works quite well ..

levesque 15y ago
Is there any reason why you choose to boot from a disk? Normally you can upgrade from within your own installation without problems.
- vibrunazo 15y ago
  To me, it's good to have a disk with the last version of ubuntu in case I need it. So if I download the disk and boot from it, I'll only download it once, versus downloading the iso + downloading the upgrade. Also, the upgrade to a new version famously have many problems. I just tried it and it crashed in the middle :S
- seclorum 15y ago
  I just boot from disk so I can get the upgrade done as quickly as possible. This way, my machine does everything it needs to upgrade, without anything else going on. Then when its done, I let it update in the background while I make sure everything went smoothly. In this case, it went very smoothly for me, and was worth the hassle. I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04, which had been rather a bit of a mess actually, in the Unity/Gnome3/fvwm shell department, as in I had them all and had to switch around to get certain things I liked. Unity crashed too often (in 11.04) for me to trust it. That has all changed. I am now running Ubuntu studio, which features fvwm, and nothing else. Gnome only if I truly need it, and Unity .. after the dust settles. So I'm quite comfortable in my upgrade to 12.04, and everything works like it should - full multi-channel digital audio, multi-monitor support with acceleration, and so on.
Random_Person 15y ago
I roasted my Xubuntu desktop today doing this. Wiped my Windows partition as well. I'm not sure why it hung, I left work before I could test things and research.

stevoo 15y ago

sudo do-release-upgrade The fastest way to do it from the shell

sidchilling 15y ago
In the update manager, it is not showing that a new version is available.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  It will, as soon as the release data percolate through the mirror network and reaches the mirror you are using.
stevoo 15y ago
or ... press the super key type : update-manager and it will tell you there is an upgrade on top. Hit the upgrade button....
sidchilling 15y ago
Do I absolutely have to install updates of 11.10 before I can upgrade to 12.04? The steps on the ubuntu sites says so.
- wccrawford 15y ago
  I'm pretty sure in the past that the upgrade software itself was updated, so you have to update the old packages first to make sure the new stuff installs properly. At any rate, better safe than sorry.

duck 15y ago

Alt-F2 and then 'update-manager -d'