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I want to upgrade my current Wubi installation (Ubuntu 11.04) to Ubuntu 11.10. Is this possible to do inside Wubi? Or do I have delete Wubi from Windows, therefore deleting my current Ubuntu installation; and then install 11.10 via the Wubi installer?

Thanks

joshthetechie
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You can upgrade a Wubi install - the same way as a normal upgrade, either from the Update Manager or via the Alternate CD (while running your Wubi Ubuntu). Note that the alternate CD has been discontinued since release 12.10 so you have to use the Update Manager.

I recommend that you check you have plenty of free space - at least 3GB - the upgrade underestimates the space it needs (bug report here).

Also, a quick and easy precaution is to backup the \ubuntu\disks\root.disk from Windows before upgrading - that way, if it fails you can just copy over the root.disk from before the upgrade.

Note that upgrading to 14.04 will require a manual workaround in order to boot.

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bcbc
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I don't think you can upgrade when you boot to the wubi install. You can try Alt+F2 then type update-manager -d but I recommend reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGe

I also suggest dual booting, however, if you plan on long-term use. Wubi is for evaluation and is known to run into issues down the road.

P05TMAN
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I did the update, and it didn't work sadly. I have no way to revert back because I can't log in, and when I tried to uninstall wubi it failed in the middle. So I'd say wait till wubi has the option for 11.10.

Devon
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