Upgrading 11.10 to 12.04

[Jonas]

went all ok!

Ctrl+Alt+F1

sudo kdm stop

sudo do-release-upgrade -f kde -d

*two cups of coffee*

sudo reboot
sudo update-grub

Some reinstalling of nvidia-driver

[GreyGeek]

:cool:

[bsniadajewski]

So you guys are using sudo do-release-upgrade -f kde -d successfully? Because every time I run it I get:

Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found

Is there a repository I need to add to apt first?

The easiest thing to do is press Alt-F2 and fire up "kdesudo kate (or kwrite) /etc/apt/sources.lst". Once you do that, replace all instances of "oneiric" with "precise" and save. From there, you can use either the "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" or use muon or synaptic for the upgrade.

[SteveRiley]

I wonder whether the -f kde bit is causing a problem? When I upgraded from Natty to Oneiric, I didn't include that, and the upgrade worked fine.

[skierpage]

-f kde for the KDE front-end UI

As the help for do-release-upgrade says, -f kde tells it runs the specified front-end. In my case it failed to load the KDE front-end, printed a warning in the terminal, and then continued on with the Gnome-UI-ish window front-end. This is nothing to do with the upgrade packages or the repository, just the UI.

Those of you running do-release-upgrade from a console terminal after stopping KDE, presumably you got no fancy UI at all?!

If someone runs sudo do-release-upgrade -f kde -d from a terminal in a KDE session and gets the KDE front-end UI with no error message, please close out bug 926946. If you have the same experience as me, please add "me too" to the bug. Thanks!