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Guide to Upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04

Posted: June 2, 2011 / in: Howtos / No comments

ubuntu-upgradeThis is a step-by-step guide to upgrade your release of Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. The upgrade procedure is illutrated by utilizing the GUI tools provided by the desktop installation of Ubuntu.

Upgrade Ubuntu

The development Team of Ubuntu provides a set of easy-to-use tools to perform all required steps when upgrading your Ubuntu installation.

Upgrade from an Older Release

To be able to follow this guide it is expected you have intalled Ubuntu 10.10. If you have to perform a migration starting from an earlier release of Ubuntu than 10.10 you should take a look at the following list of articles. They do contain a detailed description how to perform the upgrade and what alternatives are available.

Perform the Upgrade

As previously mentioned we are utilizing the graphical desktop to perform the upgrade. Everything you need is to logon to your Linux Maschine locally or remote (via a network connection).

Start the Upgrade Manager

Start the Upgrade Manager by selecting the following system menu item:

System > Administration > Update Manager

Screenshot-Update_Manager

If the application does not detect an available upgrade release you should check the settings. To check and modify settings please click on the lower left button labeled ‘Settings…‘. As described in article Online Upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 for Desktop Computers you have to modify the Upgrade Path. For updating to release 11.04 select in section Release Upgrade the entry ‘normal releases‘.

Read Release Notes

Read the release notes. They do contain important information regarding the target release you are going to update to.

Screenshot-Release_Notes

The following textbox contains the text of the previous dialog including all links.

= Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' =
 
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal'.
 
To see what's new in this release, visit:
  http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features
 
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast
and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent
applications installed by default, and almost any other software you
can imagine available through the network. 
 
We hope you enjoy Ubuntu.
 
== Feedback and Helping ==
 
If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of 
ways you can participate at
 
  http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/
 
Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help ensure
that our next release is the best release of Ubuntu ever.  If you feel
that you have found a bug please read:
 
  http://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
 
Then report bugs using apport in Ubuntu.  For example:
 
  ubuntu-bug linux
 
will open a bug report in Launchpad regarding the linux package.
 
If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but 
aren't sure, first try asking on the #ubuntu or #ubuntu-bugs IRC 
channels on Freenode, on the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the 
Ubuntu forums:
 
  http://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat
  http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
 
 
== More Information ==
 
You can find out more about Ubuntu on our website, IRC channel and wiki.
If you're new to Ubuntu, please visit:
 
  http://www.ubuntu.com/
 
 
To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's 
very low volume announcement list at:
 
  http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
 
 

 

Downloading the Packages

After confirming the previous dialog the Upgrade Manager starts to download all required software packages.

When the download has been finished the installation and configuration will be started. Depending on the hardware of your system and the number of software packages to be upgraded this step may require up to several hours.

Screenshot-Distribution_Upgrade

 

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