Warning!!!!!
While I did not have any difficulty with this upgrade, it is starting to sound like a number of people out there are having some serious difficulties. Please read the comments and other links in the comments before attempting this so that you go into it with your eyes open.
Tim
Introduction
With the new version of Ubuntu available, I thought it would be useful to walk through the upgrade steps to bring your Drake to an Eft. This article will show you step-by-step how to implement the upgrade along with screen shots along the way. This writing is based on the work EdgyUpgrades found on the Ubuntu community help site and full credit is given to the author.
What You Need
In order to upgrade your Ubuntu system to version 6.10 Edgy Eft, you will need the following:
- A properly installed version of Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake
- A working internet connection
- Root access to the Ubuntu system
Please note that you cannot upgrade to 6.10 from any version prior to 6.06.
Performing the Upgrade
In order to perform the upgrade, please execute these steps in the following order:
- Log into your Ubuntu 6.06 system
- Go to Application -> Accessories -> Terminal
- In the terminal window, type gksu “update-manager -c”
- When prompted for the password, enter the root password and click OK
- The software updates window will now appear. Near the top of the window, you will see a line that states New distribution release ‘6.10′ is available and a button marked Upgrade. Click the Upgrade button.
- Read through the release notes and then click Upgrade
- The system will download two files which make up the upgrade tool
- Next, the system will begin to upgrade to 6.10. You are prompted whether or not to start the upgrade. Please read this very carefully because once it is started, it cannot be stopped! When you are sure you are ready, click Start Upgrade
- Once the download and installation is complete, you will be prompted to reboot the system
At this point, I might suggest doing something else for a while as the download of packages and upgrade can take some time.
When the system comes back up, you will be running the new 6.10 Edgy Eft! Let the games begin!
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October 27th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
probably it will never complete the update, like it happened to me, now my Ubuntu distro is broken and im still struggling to fix it.. happened on my main computer
October 27th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Results of doing an upgrade this way:
http://element14.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/ubuntu-edgy-upgrades-a-disaster-for-many/
highly ill advised. trust me
October 27th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Carlos and digduality,
I’m sorry to hear that things did not go well for you. That is really nasty!
I have to admit that the upgrade took me significantly longer than it initially said it would. And if you do run into a problem mid upgrade, you could really be hooped.
But, I was able to complete the upgrade and everything seems to be working fine. I would not be surprised if there is extra loads on the servers right now with the release so fresh and so many people wanting to upgrade their systems.
Does anybody have any different experience with the CD based upgrade? That is my next test!
Tim
October 27th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
My Dapper install was a little hosed from my bumbling around as root. So I did the clean install from the alternate .iso and everything went fine. Of course I have a lot of configuring and app installing to get back to my set-up.
At least the system connects to my ADSL on boot now, instead of having to activate it manually. All in all - loving it.
October 28th, 2006 at 10:23 am
I have found that it is easier to use an alternate install cd and upgrade per the instructions in the ubuntu documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades?highlight=%28edgy%29%7C%28upgrade%29).
Instead of gksu “update-manager -c” insert the cd and use gksu “sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade”. Say “no” to upgrade from network and the entire process will be done from the cd.
It is easier to download and burn the alt install cd than it is to try and upgrade from the web.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:24 am
Upgrading Ubuntu…
DailyCupOfTech posts visual step by step information on how to upgrade Ubuntu Linux from 6.06 LTS to the shiny new Edgy Eft (6.10). Personally, i’m still waiting for the LTS version to come out (a few weeks/months maybe?) to be able to ship it an…
October 31st, 2006 at 8:09 am
Yes, it broke my system too. I highly recommend backing up the installed partion before upgrading! I noticed a bunch of stuff didn’t “install” propery based on the scripting messages, and if there is disk room, there really should be a way to store the old system to “undo” the mess a broken upgrade creates (I could get root access as the broken install dropped into a shell). After goofing around for too long, I just booted into that “MS” product called Windows, which unfortunatley I can’t find a replacement to do ALL the things I like to do, and restored the partition from a Norton Ghost file. Fortunatley, I learned that upgrades are like Russian Roulette with your system. I used Norton Ghost to copy an image of my Dapper Drake partition before installation. As my father would have said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I never listen:-), but at least I learned to have a backup plan.
If you don’t have a partition image/copy software: Use a Qparted bootable CDROM (free .iso file, just look for it on the net) and copy the partition onto a REMOVABLE drive (b/c if you copy it to a partition as an actual live partition on your system, you can get locked out of sudo forever when you reboot (I did this once-that is how I know, though it might have been a quirk particular to me, but it seemed to get confused on two identical partitions and looked fine on boot, but I could not do anything from root again).
Lastly, I tried to use the “apt-cdrom add” and it did add it to my apt sources file, but when I ran apt with distro-upgrade, it never looked at the cdrom again… and went entirely from the net, and yes, Kubuntu boots fine off the Edgy Eft 6.10 cd. Looks nifty, but I think I will have to see if I can install it to another partition as a fresh install and just get it to a point I can use it.
Peace out, and BACK UP FIRST!!!
November 28th, 2006 at 3:25 am
I don’t upgrade ubun6.06 —>6.10
error
katun@katun:~/Desktop$ gksu “update-manager -c”
gksu: invalid option — c
GKsu version 1.3.7
Usage: gksu [-u ] [-k] [-l]
–always-ask-password, -a
Do not try to check if a password is really
needed for running the command, or if there
are other means of obtaining it: simply ask for it.
–debug, -d
Print information on the screen that might be
useful for diagnosing and/or solving problems.
–disable-grab, -g
Disable the “locking” of the keyboard, mouse,
and focus done by the program when asking for
password.
–icon , -i
Replace the default window icon with the argument.
–message , -m
Replace the standard message shown to ask for
password for the argument passed to the option.
–print-pass, -p
Ask gksu to print the password to stdout, just
like ssh-askpass. Useful to use in scripts with
programs that accept receiving the password on
stdin.
–prompt, -P
Ask the user if they want to have their keyboard
and mouse grabbed before doing so.
–ssh-fwd, -s
Strip the host part of the $DISPLAY variable, so that
GKSu will work on SSH X11 Forwarding.
–sudo-mode, -S
Make GKSu use sudo instead of su, as if it had been
run as “gksudo”.
–title , -t
Replace the default title with the argument.
–user , -u
Call as the specified user.
–desktop , -D
Use a .desktop file to get the name of the application
and the icon from.
–preserve-env, -k
Preserve the current environments, does not set $HOME
nor $PATH, for example.
–login, -l
Make this a login shell. Beware this may cause
problems with the Xauthority magic. Run xhost
to allow the target user to open windows on your
display!
it’s always show that
help me,
December 11th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Worked like a charm! (On old Sony Vaio laptop)
However, this methods for some reason takes a lot longer than downloading the ISO, burning to a CD and install from CD.
Only thing I found afterwards, I could not find any samba shares from my network. No biggie!
Note! I Skipped the step where “unsupported” programs were about to be deleted.
P
December 19th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
For those who are wondering why copying and pasting the examples here don’t work, it’s because this website has “smart quotes”. This particular abortion’s effect is that the open quotes are replaced with some funky character. Unfortunately Unix likes its opening and closing grouping operators to, you know, match.
Don’t copy and paste. Type the examples. You will have much more luck.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:25 pm
i found this to be the easiest upgrade ever. no problems.
ran into problems trying to install beryl with ubuntu edgy. locks me out of the GUI telling me there is a problem with the service. other than that, cleanest upgrade ever.
keep up the good work
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:37 am
it migth be that i use kubuntu 606 , but gksu comand wasnt found when i tried.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:59 am
for those who are having problems with: gksu: invalid option — c
you should run the command as root
August 12th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
I always find it’s useful to install Lynx just in case something goes wrong, to have web access even if you can’t load your GUI.
September 1st, 2007 at 6:26 am
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/dists/dapper/non-free/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
that is my problem… everything up to downloading the packages works good.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:42 am
I ve problem during upgrading dapper to edgy.
Failed to fetch http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/postgresql-8.1/libpq4_8.1.10-0ubuntu0.6.10.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/upstart/startup-tasks_0.2.7-7.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/upstart/upstart-compat-sysv_0.2.7-7.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/upstart/system-services_0.2.7-7.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/upstart/upstart-logd_0.2.7-7.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/upstart/upstart_0.2.7-7.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found
What should I do?
Thank you.
October 21st, 2007 at 9:53 am
If you’re having problem downloading packages, you can try downloading them first and dropping them into /var/cache/apt/archives. There’s also a directory in /etc created by the update-manager. According to what I’ve read you should NEVER use the dist-upgrade method, and always use the update manager, which is on the alternate install CD.
With that said, I’m trying to do the upgrade right now, and I’m running it a second time because it bombed on the first run. I hope your luck is better than mine.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Followup: I ended up removing all sources, using apt-cdrom to add the cdrom, using synaptic to do the upgrade (update, mark all upgrades, apply) and then after the reboot I was able to run the /cdrom/cdromupgrade (iso image mounted with -o ro,loop on /mnt/cdrom, and ln -sf /mnt/cdrom /cdrom) successfully (updating partial-Gutsy to Gutsy, in other words.) And yes, it DID still have something to do. I was not able to use the internet update portion of the install, so don’t do that if it fails once.
If you have a conexant hsf modem and intel hda audio, update your modem driver before you update your kernel.