[GTALUG] Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10
Chris Aitken
chris at chrisaitken.net
Sat Dec 20 19:42:16 UTC 2014
On 14-12-20 02:13 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
> I had this exact issue a short while ago. The issue is that Ubuntu no
> longer has any of the packages for 12.10 live so apt fails to find the
> files it needs to do a dist. upgrade. I used the following post to
> get around this issue:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-an-old-unsupported-release/91821#91821
I tried all those steps.
|sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com\|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
||sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
||sudo apt-get update
||sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade|
The last step gave me ...
chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
For upgrade information, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
Err Upgrade tool signature
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80]
Err Upgrade tool
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80]
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing
Failed to fetch
Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem.
chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
>
> There's more information here too:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Chris Aitken <chris at chrisaitken.net
> <mailto:chris at chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is that you´re using a very old version of Flash. In
>>> fact, you´re using very old version of everything, as far as I
>>> can see.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu 12.10 - means you´re using Ubuntu from October 2012.
>>> Firefox 29 - the one I´m using is 34.
>>>
>>> Well, I think you should really think about updating your
>>> Ubuntu, so you´ll also have all the other softwares updated,
>>> since you´re using old repositories, with old versions of software.
>>
>> OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System
>> Tools > Admin > Software Updater gave me ...
>>
>> Failed to download repository information.
>>
>> Chris
>
> I found some easy commands at an Ubuntu site...
>
> |sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo do-release-upgrade
>
> ||That gave me ...
>
> chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update
> [sudo] password for chris:
> Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg
> Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports Release.gpg
>
> [...]
>
> Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/multiverse i386 Packages/DiffIndex
> Ignhttp://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en_CA
> Ignhttp://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en
> Errhttp://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources
> 404 Not Found
> Errhttp://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages
> 404 Not Found
> Ignhttp://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en_CA
>
> [...]
>
> Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe Translation-en
> Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Sources
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
> Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Sources
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
> Ignhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en_CA
> Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Sources
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
> Ignhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en
> Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Sources
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
>
> [...]
>
> Errhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80]
> Errhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80]
> W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
>
> W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
>
> [...]
>
> W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
>
> W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
>
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
> Checking for a new Ubuntu release
> Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
> For upgrade information, please visit:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
>
> Err Upgrade tool signature
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
> Err Upgrade tool
> 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]
> Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
> WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing
> Failed to fetch
> Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem.
> chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C
> chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
>
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