Upgrade Ubuntu from 9.04 to latest Ubuntu
Updating a version of Ubuntu version 9.04 to the latest stable
release is actually very simple and BORING.
It takes some long time and a lot of clicking, however eventually,
the upgrade to the latest Ubuntu will be at hand.
The whole upgrade philosophy to Upgrade an outdated Ubuntu
distribution to the newest supported stable Ubuntu release is in a
consequentual number of release to release upgrades.
Let's say you're running
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope and) you
want to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 TLS
then you will have to to the following step by step upgrades;
Upgrade Ubuntu from;
- Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10
- Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04
- Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 11.04 to Ubuntu 11.11
Now let's start upgrading ...
1. Upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10
Press
Alt+F2 and type:
update-manager -d
Press the Run Button afterwards to launch the command.
You will be prompted for your Linux administrator password, so type
it in.
Next the command will launch the
Update Manager . The update
manager will show you all the available updates.
The Update Manager will show you the update options, it should say
something like:
New distribution release '9.10' is available
Click Over the Update button and wait.
The Ubuntu update will went by by few steps:
1. Preparing Updates
2. Setting new software channels
3. Getting new packages
4. Installing the updates
5. Cleaning up
6. Restarting the computer
You will see further on a screen reading
"Support for some
applications ended", on that screen simply press the
Close button.
Further on you will be prompted with a windows reading:
Do you want to start the upgrade? You have to click over
Start Upgrade button to finally begin with the upgrade
process.
Now a prompt window will appearing asking you to reboot the system,
when the prompt appears click over:
Restart Now
After the upgrade the new release of Ubuntu 9.10 will start booting
up, and you will see a screen similar to the picture below:
Now as you have updated from
Ubuntu 9.04 next step is to
upgrade to
Ubuntu 10.04
Now guess what you will have to upgrade the trivial quick update
procedures once again.
Once again launch the
Ubuntu Update Manager
System -> Administration -> Update Manager
Now as you have updated from
Ubuntu 9.04 next step is to
upgrade to
Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS - Lucid Lynx)
Now guess what you will have to upgrade the trivial quick update
procedures once again.
Once again launch the
Ubuntu Update Manager
System -> Administration -> Update
Manager
Now follow the above described procedure with
update-manager
-d
After repeating the few trivial steps you will have
Ubuntu 10.04
LTS on your Desktop
Further on complete the trivial update steps with the
update-manager to update to Ubuntu release 10.10 (Maverick
Meerkat).
After having succesfully upgraded to version 10.10, now repeat the
boring update procedures described in the beginning of the article
to update to Ubuntu 11.04
Now as you should be with Ubuntu 11.04, upgrade once again with
update-manager to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).
And ast a last, once again with the
update-manager -d update
following the instructions to Ubuntu 11.10.
I'm pretty sure this is one of my most boring articles ever
...
It's interesting fact that I learn once from a friend of mine about
the Ubuntu distribution. The Ubuntu distribution has it's
versioning based on months and year whether a version is out for
instance Ubuntu 9.04 means this Ubuntu release is released on
(Month 04 (April), year 2009)), Ubuntu 11.10 Means this
distribution is released in (year 2011, month 10 (October)).