Comments on: Upgrade Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) to Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

By: javier

javier — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:38:59 +0000

Hi I need to upgrade an old pc from ubuntu 6-06, how can I do that ? is there a clean way to do it ?

By: Thomas Mertes

Thomas Mertes — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:08:29 +0000

I also want to upgrade. from 6.06 to 6.10 .
First I verify my current ubuntu version:

tm@penguin:~$ sudo lsb_release -a
Password:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS
Release: 6.06
Codename: dapper
tm@penguin:~$

Then I use the command
gksu ‘update-manager -c -d’
with single quotes (otherwise gksu complains about the -c option):

tm@penguin:~$ gksu ‘update-manager -c -d’
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
warnings.warn(“apt API not stable yet”, FutureWarning)

the update-manager starts and gives me the information that my
system is up to date. There is NO text which says:

New distribution release ’6.10′ is available.

So I have no possibility to upgrade.

Can somebody help me.

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By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:21:13 +0000

African - I got the same error using the GUI, use the non GUI method.

By: African

African — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:26:11 +0000

Hello !
I have this error in upgrade :

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the ‘update-manager’ package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport

An idea ?

By: Robb Munson

Robb Munson — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:15:34 +0000

Awesome! Thank you so very much for telling me how to do this! I was about to cry because I didnt want to install the WHOLE ubuntu iso!

By: ubufan

ubufan — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:15:02 +0000

@ prasopsuk

Maybe with: sudo dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xorg

By: prasopsuk

prasopsuk — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:01:12 +0000

i had upgrade ubuntu from drapper to edgy on ibm thinkpad r50e.
i got problem : can’t start x server.[incorrect setting interface]
how to solve this problem?

By: Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:07:59 +0000

This guide worked for me except for one thing: I had to manually remove xserver-xorg-core and then install it again with the following command.For some reason this was held back during the command ‘sudo apt-get dist-upgrade’ earlier.

Try running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade again after its run to ensure that you have actually updated all your files. Check if there were files that were helf back and see if “xserver-xorg-core” was one of them. That being the case do the following

1.To remove : sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-core
2.To re-install: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

This cause my xserver to bomb saying it could not find GLCore and “fixed” font.

By: Jorge Olivares

Jorge Olivares — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:36:59 +0000

Thanks for the explanation, I made the apt install…, Only one thing at the end of the tutorial you put: sudo dpkg –configure -a, And I think it is: sudo dpkg –-configure -a.