Comments on: Upgrading Ubuntu From Edgy to Feisty (6.10 to 7.04)

By: austin

austin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:08:09 +0000

when i try to upgrade to 7.04
an error comes up saying:
Could not download all repository indexes

The repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and the correct writing of the repository address in the preferences.
with a list of these listed:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubu.....ackages.gz: 404 Not Found
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubu.....Sources.gz: 404 Not Found
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubu.....Sources.gz: 404 Not Found

wut do i do? it wont let me upgrade later either……………..

By: nizaradil

nizaradil — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:17:35 +0000

thanks very much

good luck

By: malvin

malvin — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:21:26 +0000

The upgrade problem appears only on gnome desktop. KDE does not pose any such problem and the upgrade was effortless. Time to switch.

By: Alalykin Denis

Alalykin Denis — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:14:02 +0000

I am not the cool programmer or anything like that. I just so many times heard about this – and i decided to install it. Usually I run XP.
So -now I have livecd of 6.10 and soon (but don’t know when) – get the 7.04 one. My questo is – what is better – to install 6.10 (of course – as one of two systems) and the somehow upgrade it with livecd of 7.04? Or better just to wait and install 7.04 when i get it?

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:46:57 +0000

Hi I am trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 – all goes well until I get this error message:

Failed to fetch http://kubuntu.org/packages/kd.....ackages.gz 404 Not Found

and this happens every time I try to upgrade. Please could you tell me how to get past this?
many thanks
Rich

By: Sherry

Sherry — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:24:28 +0000

Thanks for the Great instructions, they worked perfectly for me. Have you written more docs with tips? Loved the Alt + F2 combo. Total noobie here.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:08:55 +0000

Unfortunately, update-manager -c crashed halfway through for me - and it had managed to update update-manager, which was now asking for PyGTK which I didn't have installed... ...You can continue the installation manually by doing sudo dpkg --configure -a to carry on from the console. I'm not sure if this will do the 'cleanup' step, as it's doing it on my Edgy box atm.

By: Hans R.

Hans R. — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:11:50 +0000

While upgrading to ubuntu 7.04 the Distribution Upgrade window turned blank and an error window opened blank as well. Any suggestion how to cope with this?

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:17:03 +0000

– “Does upgrading from Dapper through Feisty wipe personal files..Should I backup before or will everything be fine???”

Upgrading will not wipe any of your personal files.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:15:59 +0000

I’m pretty sure you can upgrade directly from the CD/DVD.

What you’ll need to do is make sure the cdrom is selected as the primary source in the sources file (should be able to do it via the GUI, I’d imagine)

Then you’d need to update the sources ( apt-get update ), and then try and launch the upgrade process.

Note that I’ve not tested this out yet… I’ll try and do so in the next day or so.