Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?

[Timothy Webster]

Please start using /etc/apt/sources.lists.d/ 
This is way you can have file for different locations when you are travelling. 
And have file for gusty, hardy etc. 

If the file has the .list extension it is used otherwise it is not. So set up all your files and enable them, adding the .list extension to them.



--- On Fri, 5/23/08, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?
To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 2:56 PM

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.

I have one since I have a Gutsy (7.10) system as well. I can send it
if you're absolutely stuck and don't have a backup of your own.

Good luck.

Andrew.

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I've never done this before, that is upgrade Ubuntu over top of the
> previous version. I bought the 6 DVD set, from www.thelinuxstore.ca due
> to not having high speed. I Put the install disk in the drive to see
> what was on it, if there were some docs to read, on how to do this.
>
> A Dialogue Box came up and said  "Would you like to upgrade, and have
> all the Email etc transferred to the new version". After upgrading
with
> all 190 upgrades for Ubuntu 7.10 on Dial up, I figured lets give the 8.04
Upgrade
> a try. Well it said it was testing the Repositories, and then it
> crashed. Trouble is when it tried this again, it had read the index
> files on the first DVD, and I used Synaptic to load the data and DVD
> names to use the DVD's as Repositories. When I tried to do the update
> the Auto upgrade could not be found, and now there were 577 Updates in
> Update, but very few of them were checked, and an error message said
> that this could happen if the previous attempt was incomplete. Is there
> some way to restore Updater to no updates, in other words get rid of
> the 577 updates listed in it, so that I might be able to try this
> again, that is do the upgrade of 7.10 to 8.04, over top of 7.10? Is
> there some flaw in this Upgrade Software? Why does it crash?
>
> Alfred!
>
>
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