Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You're not alone. I had the same problem. In my case, I was able to
> hack a completed install from Gutsy (7.10) to Hardy (8.04). The
> resulting system was not pretty.
>
> You can see other people's attempts here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768727
>
> This was a pretty common issue with this upgrade. I eventually backed
> up my personal files to DVD and then did a clean install.
>
> The reason that you're seeing the pending updates is because your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file now points to Hardy repositories. You will
> need to get a clean /etc/apt/sources.list file.
>
> Switch to the folder /etc/apt.
> Check if there is a backup of the /etc/apt/sources.list, if so, open
> it in an editor and make sure that the repositories point to Gutsy. If
> you can see references to "hardy" in that file, then you'll have to
> get a copy of a good /etc/apt/sources.list file before any of those
> updates disappear.

if you need a simple sources.list to get you going, here is the one I
usually use for my Ubuntu computers:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
universe multiverse

just replace the 3 "hardy" by "gutsy", and do an "sudo apt-get
updates" afterward, and your system should be back as a normal 7.10.



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