[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu upgrade question

Emanuel R e.rasolof at flowingsun.org
Fri Jun 5 11:56:15 PDT 2009


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Thank you so much! That's exactly what I was looking for.
I had a feeling it should be somewhere else.
Emanuel


Andrew wrote:
> Emanuel R wrote on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:03:44 -0700:
>
>> I apparently missed the deadline for the 7.10 repository
>> support and now I am not able to download the latest software
>> updates for 7.10.
>
> When support ends for an Ubuntu release, that release is removed
> from the regular Ubuntu repositories (as you have discovered),
> but it doesn't disappear entirely. Instead, it gets put out to
> pasture in Ubuntu's "old-releases" repository. It no longer gets
> new security updates or bug fixes, but you can still access all
> of the release's packages as they were on the last day of
> support.
>
> To do this, you'll need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file
> (make a backup first). In it, you'll see lines like this:
>
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe
multiverse
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted
universe multiverse
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
universe multiverse
>
> Change those to read:
>
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted
universe multiverse
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted
universe multiverse
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main
restricted universe multiverse
>
> (You can also make these changes within a GUI package manager
> such as Synaptic, if you prefer.)
>
> Then update as usual and you will be as up-to-date with Gutsy as
> you can be. After that, you can follow Kyle's recommendation and
> upgrade to Hardy, then Intrepid, and finally Jaunty.
>
> Good luck, and please let us know how it went.
>
> By the way, for the Debian users on this list, Debian does the
> same thing -- only their "pasture" is archive.debian.org, so the
> lines in sources.list look like:
>
> deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ $RELEASE main
contrib non-free
>
> A.
>
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