Comments on: Upgrade Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy

By: loretta

loretta — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:15:37 +0000

I had the same problem!
here you’ll find all you need to know to do the upgrade:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
I’ve just done it, it works!

By: smcr

smcr — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Nice clear explanation. Unfortunately, similar to Eric Swanson above, it doesn’t work for me. I don’t get the message telling me that there is an upgrade available when I run the upgrade manager. Is it that we have left it too late to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy (and upwards).

By: Eric Swanson

Eric Swanson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:58:56 +0000

Nice write-up but it didn’t work for me. I’m trying to go from Feisty to 8.10 in the end and 7.10 immediately. My computer can’t seem to find the prerequisites perhaps because I waited too long to upgrade and the sites are not there. Do you have any guidance on what to do in a case such as mine?

By: Eric Swanson

Eric Swanson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:56:01 +0000

Nice write-up but it didn’t work for me. I’m trying to go from Feisty to 8.10 in the end and 7.10 immediately. My computer can’t seem to find the perequisits perhaps because I waited too long to upgrade and the sites are not there. Do you have any guidance on what to do in a case such as mine?

By: John

John — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:57:20 +0000

You will need to make sure that your sources.list is clean.
All you need is main, restricted, multiverse, universe for feisty, feisty-upgrades, feisty-security, feisty-backports and ensure that any sources listed by easyubuntu are also removed. Without this you get errors that it cannot find certain repositories and you go bald trying to find out why it doesn’t work I’m down to my last 2 hairs which may only survive until the next round.

By: p00Bah

p00Bah — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:59:33 +0000

I originally installed 7.10 in a new temporary partition just to see how it looked. When I liked it, I swapped back to my Feisty partition and did the upgrade. Everything appeared to work except the version of Linux is still 2.6.20-16. Ironically the version of Linux in my temporary partition is 2.6.22-12. Although I could install all of my applications on the new one, do you know of a quick and easy way to upgrade just the version of Linux?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:36:36 +0000

I’m a completely new linux user, and followed your directions on upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy and have run into a couple problems…
1. I can no longer connect to the internet. I have DSL. It was working fine before but now I can’t even bring up google…
2. My screen resolution is now 640 x 480 and it does not give me the option to change it to any other resolution.

That’s it so far, any help or advice would be great.

By: Murray

Murray — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:00:58 +0000

Generally, the instructions are good. I wanted to upgrade Kubuntu. For that, I had to use “kdesu” instead of “gksu”. Since 7.10 has now been released, I first tried:
kdesu “update-manager -c”

That just gave me all the updates to 7.04 (and there were none as I had already done them) with no option to upgrade to 7.10. I thought that, perhaps, 7.10 was still in the development phase so I tried:
kdesu “update-manager -c -d”

with the same results. For no reason at all, I decided to try:
kdesu “update-manager”

That worked! For anyone still having trouble upgrading, this might work for you as well.

By: baracuda68

baracuda68 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:45:28 +0000

Does Kubuntu and Xubuntu 7.10 release the same day & time, too?

By: Ross Peoples

Ross Peoples — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:12:25 +0000

It may be true that they broke something in the repos, but I’ve had this problem on every machine I’ve upgraded for the last month. I found this page which fixed everything

http://www.go2linux.org/upgrading-to-gutsy