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I'm trying to upgrade my Ubuntu release from 12.10 to 13.04, having successfully upgraded to 12.10 yesterday. With the intention of then moving to 13.10.

I am up to date with other software updates.

Using the Update Manager I am offered to upgrade the release, but this is offering an upgrade to 13.10 instead of the expected 13.04.

When selecting upgrade this does in fact attempt to upgrade to 13.10 'Saucy', the application tells me off for doing so, rightly so, and sends me away.

Any ideas how I can upgrade to 13.04 firstly?

Lee
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You have to use update-manager-core from quantal-updates instead of quantal-proposed.

See: I don't know how to upgrade 12.10 to 13.04 or 13.10

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Andreas Schaeffer
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The definitive situation around this is that the update-manager package does not support upgrades to saucy .. well, as of today.

Maybe it did so in the past, and maybe it may do so again in future. But as of April 2014 this tool does not support upgrades to saucy. Perhaps this may be on account of the EOL'ing of Raring (13.04) .. and perhaps also the need for a direct upgrade from 12.10 to 13.10.

The only thing that worked for me was:

  • s/quantal/saucy/ in /etc/apt/sources.list
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get dist-upgrade
Chux Uzoeto
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This will what you should do:

sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

this will upgrade all of your dependency files, easier that way before upgrading to Saucy. This next command will enable you to move on up to Saucy:

sudo do-release-upgrade

then that will fire off the process. Good luck!

Faron
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This is expected, but not so early. Raring will be EOL (End Of Life) from January 2014 onwards, but Quantal (which you are using) will be still supported until April 2014. So, what the release team did:

So instead the supported upgrade path will be 12.10->13.10->14.04, starting from January.

You might be feeling this. They probably (I haven't found the sources yet) activated this from the server side before hand. I don't know if such behavior could be tweaked (from client side) and I wouldn't experiment with it. You can try the upgrade, if it works, great! If it doesn't, please report a bug. Make sure to make backups of all your stuff before upgrading!

Related:

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Braiam
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I had the same problem and this is how I managed to upgrade 12.10 to 13.04 instead of 13.10:

1) Open release-upgrades file: sudo gedit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
2) You should have Prompt=normal, this mode upgrades to release that immediately succeeds the currently-running release.
3) Run upgrade using sudo do-release-upgrade

This way I now have 13.04, not 13.10.

scadge
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