Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
Posted by admin on April 24th, 2008 
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Upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 LTS follow this procedure
Before you start Upgrading you need to know the following points
- You need to make sure you have complete backup of your machine
- Be sure that you have all updates applied to your current version of Ubuntu before you upgrade.
Now you need to Press Alt-F2 and type update-manager -d Click on Run.
or
Go to System -> Administration -> Update Manager
Starting Update Manager in Progress
Now you can see New Distribution release 8.04 is available for upgrade click on upgrade
This will show you Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Release notes click on upgrade
Now it will prompt for root password enter your root password click ok
Preparing for upgrade in progress
If you are using any third party sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list file it will be disabled at the time of upgrade process click close
If you have any unsupported libs installed in your machine you can see similar to the following screen click close
Starting the upgrade process window click on Start Upgrade
Downloading the new Packages in Progress
After downloading this will start the installation of packages if you have more than one display managers installed this will prompt you to choose your default display manager and click Forward
Installing Packages in Progress
Installing Packages in Progress in Terminal
If you have installed any applications this will prompt for you to restart the services with new libs click forward
Cleaning Up process 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
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April 24th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
update-manager -d !!!!!
April 24th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I have a Gutsy server, and this is my first upgrade on it.
How can I upgrade through SSH?
April 24th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
try this procedure
Preparing for the Upgrade - Ubuntu Server
You’ll want to make sure that your current installation is completely up to date first. Repeat the below steps until no more updates are offered:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 - Ubuntu Server
To upgrade your Ubuntu Server from 7.10 to 8.04 follow these few steps and you’ll be presented with a menu that will walk you through the upgrade process.
sudo aptitude install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
April 24th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Maybe you should try the following argument
ssh -Xit direct the program I/O to your local X Server if the other machine allows it.
I never tried to upgrade through ssh though.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
@Admin
Thanx, I’ll give it a try.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:21 am
cheers !
finally it is released.
i have installed hardy, i am using hardy for this comment !
have fun guysss !
April 25th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Ub-noob, you’d do something like -
ssh -X user@domain update-manager
April 26th, 2008 at 4:28 am
My advice for any newbie attempting a release upgrade is to make sure that you have packages like apt-listbugs, apt-listchanges and wajig installed. They may just save you from some unnecessary anxieties and/or a hosed system.
Prepare for having to make decisions on quite a few unresolved bugs. Many of whom (including some very grave and major ones such as some base packages (e.g. apt), readers simply have no choice but to put them on hold till there are fixes for them. e.g.
serious bugs of synaptic (0.60ubuntu5 -> 0.61ubuntu9)
#456044 - FTBFS with GCC 4.3: missing #includes (Fixed: synaptic/0.61+nmu1)
serious bugs of gnome-app-install (0.4.13-0ubuntu1 -> 0.5.2.7-0ubuntu1)
#476287 - user strings spread confusion about contrib & non-free (Fixed: gnome-app-install/0.5.2.7-1)
serious bugs of apt (0.7.6ubuntu14.1 -> 0.7.9ubuntu17)
#476696 - cdebootstrap should install recommends (Fixed: debian-archive-keyring/2008.04.16+nmu1)
Merged with: 476689
critical bugs of gdebi-core (0.3.2ubuntu1 -> 0.3.8)
#469593 - Gdebi does not install nothing
grave bugs of synaptic (0.60ubuntu5 -> 0.61ubuntu9)
#452377 - A package marked for reinstall, if conflicting, is removed *without warning*
grave bugs of subversion (1.4.4dfsg1-1ubuntu3 -> 1.4.6dfsg1-2ubuntu1)
#477772 - subversion: Segfaults during operation
grave bugs of update-manager (1:0.81 -> 1:0.87.24)
#447641 - update-manager: Won’t launch
Merged with: 434025 451459
#449040 - update-manager: Smart Upgrade removes packages with dependency problems without confirmation
grave bugs of apt (0.7.6ubuntu14.1 -> 0.7.9ubuntu17)
#474947 - MMap, again; and won’t be denied this time
#465241 - bibtex2html has been installed with an unmet dependency
grave bugs of wvdial (1.56-1.2ubuntu2 -> 1.60.1)
#461365 - wvdial 1.56-1.2 is uninstallable
grave bugs of gdebi (0.3.2ubuntu1 -> 0.3.8)
#440834 - gdebi : error on installing deb
#453188 - Cannot execute gdebi installer
grave bugs of ntfsprogs (1.13.1-6 -> 2.0.0-1ubuntu2)
#470512 - ntfsprogs: unclean unmount during normal shutdown
grave bugs of libpam-modules (0.99.7.1-5ubuntu1 -> 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6)
#444427 - libpam-modules: pam_group: bad users matching
serious bugs of acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu8 -> 1.0.4-5ubuntu9)
#463535 - logout hangs with libgtk2.0-0 2.12.5-2
serious bugs of apt (0.7.6ubuntu14.1 -> 0.7.9ubuntu17)
#476532 - debian-archive-keyring: unconfigurable due to missing gnupg
serious bugs of aptitude (0.4.6.1-1ubuntu3 -> 0.4.9-2ubuntu5)
#472551 - aptitude accepts to remove essential packages
Notes on some of the terminology used in apt-listbugs.
=> Bug resolved, package can be safely installed again
=> Fix is on the way i.e. perhaps in the next minor version release of the affected package
=> No solution to bug yet.
=> Not a Ubuntu issue, forwarded to upstream devs awaiting their decision and solution.
For what it iis worth, to put a buggy package on hold i.e. prevent which ever package manager you are using from upgrading it, just issue “sudo wajig hold packagename”. To view what are the packages on hold, do a “sudo wajig list-hold”. To unhold a held package, “sudo wajig unhold packagename”
April 26th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Hmmm I’ll retry the part on the status again…seems like some tags are forbidden…
Notes on some of the terminology used in apt-listbugs.
fixed => Bug resolved, package can be safely installed again
pending-fixed => Fix is on the way i.e. perhaps in the next minor version release of the affected package
pending => No solution to bug yet.
forwarded => Not a Ubuntu issue, forwarded to upstream devs awaiting their decision and solution.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I’m using Gutsy Gibbon on a Dell laptop D600, and it’s not possible for me to upgrade to Hardy Heron. The upgrade message simply does not appear in my Update Manager screen, not even after several Checks. I’m fully updated. What am I doing wrong?
Harrie
May 11th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Harrie,
Press Alt-F2 and type gksu “update-manager -d”
May 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I tried to upgrade Gutsy to Hardy on my Toshiba laptop but it stalled in the process. when I try again The update package tells me that ‘Not all updates can be installed’ and suggest that I run a Partial Upgrade. When I click partial Upgrade it brings up the Distribution Upgrade window for running the partial upgrade but once this starts prearing the uprade the program stalls (while reading the cache)
May 17th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Patrik,
I am facing the same issue as Harrie. I tried - Press Alt-F2 and type gksu “update-manager -d”. Still the
Upgrade message is not appearing in the update manager. Is there any other setting that needs to be enabled?
Cheers.