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Before Upgrading You need to remember the following Important point
Take complete backup of your system before upgrading .Now you need to upgraded Ubuntu Feisty Machine to Ubuntu Gutsy.
If you want to upgrade using GUI use the following procedure
Use the Alt+F2 key combination to bring up the Run Application dialog, where you’ll want to enter the following command
update-manager -c
“-c” switch tells it to look for upgrades at all.
You should see the following screen here Now you can see 7.10 is available for upgrade click on upgrade

Now you should see the release notes as follows here you need to click on upgrade

Preparing for the upgrade in Progress

You can see similar to the following screen about end of support for some applications click on close

Now you should see the following screen to start upgrade click on start upgrade

Fetching the upgrades are in progress

Installing the upgrades are in progress

Cleaning Up is in Progress

You need to restart the system to complete the Upgrade by clicking “Restart Now”

Testing Your Upgrade
You can check the ubuntu version installed using the following command
sudo lsb_release -a
Output Looks like below





Great article, it helped a lot. Thanks.
I went to Upgrade Manager, as per the above.
The phrase – “New distribution release ‘7.10′ is available. – Upgrade” is not on the Upgrade Manager screen, as per the screen shot.
Previously I have been here to check it out and it was. Has the upgrade process changed?
thanks
Is the upgrade process the same for 7.10 to 8.04
are there chances if data losses during the process.
Similar to Geoff Scales quoted above I do not get “New distribution release ‘7.10? is available. – Upgrade” on the Upgrade Manager screen. What should I do?