Is anyone here seeing this bug when running do-release-upgrade / update-manager *before* trying to dist-upgrade by hand? If so, can you please give me some more information that I can use to reproduce this? A list of packages you have installed would be helpful. And APT logs. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUpdateManager
> As has been reported in this bug a number of times, do-release-upgrade > doesn't work either. The reports mentioning that looked like they'd tried to dist-upgrade first. > But to that point, I would call it a failing that a process needs to be > wrapped around "apt-get dist-upgrade" to handle, uhm, > *dist*tribution*-upgrade*s. Regardless of your opinion of that, having a tool that handles all the details of a distribution upgrade (which is more complex than just an apt dist-upgrade) makes peoples lives a lot easier. It means you don't have to read long release notes mentioning every possible pitfall we know about, that you may run into. update-manager can just know how to avoid them, itself. apt's dist-upgrade is just an apt upgrade that allows package removal. It's not an all-in-one distribution upgrade tool. > Well, that didn't work here either. I upgraded apt and dpkg and still > needed to override the apt configuration variable to finally get it to > install. Which is the kind of thing you need to do when upgrading by hand, rather than using upgrade-manager. It's perfectly doable, just not that quick and easy. I'd like to help, but I haven't got much concrete data to work on here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990740 Title: upgrading from lucid to precise fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-defaults/+bug/990740/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
