[EdLUG] Fwd: XUbuntu Upgrade

Gábor Majoros mersaint at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 21:29:06 UTC 2020


Nice, wasn't aware of this being possible easily.
However by the sounds of it you need to be quite desperate.

"A full backup is also strongly recommended as this procedure is still very
much work in progress. Reinstalling is still the safer option. You have
been warned!"



On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 21:09 Peter Dziuba, <pepi at palarnia.org> wrote:

> It is possible!
> https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading
>
> wt., 6 paź 2020 o 21:03 Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> napisał(a):
>
>> I searched for the model name shown in the prompt, and it looks like a
>> Lenovo G50-30 has a Celeron N2830 processor, which is 64-bit capable. If
>> that's right, you could back up your data and install a new version of
>> Xubuntu. I don't think there's any easy way to upgrade from a 32-bit
>> installation to 64-bit, so it would need to be a clean install.
>>
>> https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/g-series/g50-30/
>>
>> https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/81071/intel-celeron-processor-n2830-1m-cache-up-to-2-41-ghz.html
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, at 20:51, Gábor Majoros wrote:
>>
>> "There will not be any further Ubuntu releases for this system's
>> 'i386' architecture. "
>>
>> This is a 32bit install? If so on 20.04 is 64bit only.
>> If the hardware supports 64bit probably want to reinstall if not start
>> thinking about a new hw?
>>
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 20:43 Tai Kedzierski, <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Looks like my solution for Andrew was not correct. Anybody have any ideas?
>>
>>
>> ===
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>>
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>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: *Andrew Ramage* <andrew.ramage.1963 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 at 20:39
>> Subject: Re: XUbuntu Upgrade
>> To: <dch.tai at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo apt install -y
>> ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
>> [sudo] password for andrew:
>> Sorry, try again.
>> [sudo] password for andrew:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> ubuntu-release-upgrader-core is already the newest version (1:18.04.38).
>> 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
>> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
>> [sudo] password for andrew:
>> Checking for a new Ubuntu release
>> Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [1,554
>> B]
>> Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,342
>> kB]
>> Fetched 1,344 kB in 0s (0
>> B/s)
>> authenticate 'focal.tar.gz' against 'focal.tar.gz.gpg'
>> extracting 'focal.tar.gz'
>>
>> Reading cache
>>
>> Checking package manager
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic
>> InRelease
>> Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7
>> kB]
>> Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7
>> kB]
>> Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/midori/ppa/ubuntu bionic
>> InRelease
>> Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
>> [74.6 kB]
>> Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu wily
>> InRelease
>> Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu vivid
>> InRelease
>> Err http://ppa.launchpad.net/midori/ppa/ubuntu bionic
>> Release
>>   404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83
>> 80]
>> Hit https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu zesty
>> InRelease
>> Get:4 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease [2,591
>> B]
>> Hit https://packages.cisofy.com/community/lynis/deb stable
>> InRelease
>> Get:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe
>> Sources [428 kB]
>> Get:6 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main Sources
>> [494 kB]
>> Get:7 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386
>> Packages [1,119 kB]
>> Get:8 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386
>> DEP-11 Metadata [295 kB]
>> Get:9 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe i386
>> Packages [1,541 kB]
>> Get:10 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe i386
>> DEP-11 Metadata [286 kB]
>> Get:11 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse
>> i386 DEP-11 Metadata [2,468 B]
>> Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main Sources
>> [234 kB]
>> Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386
>> Packages [824 kB]
>> Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386
>> DEP-11 Metadata [48.9 kB]
>> Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe i386
>> DEP-11 Metadata [57.1 kB]
>> Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse i386
>> DEP-11 Metadata [2,464 B]
>> Get:17 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe
>> i386 DEP-11 Metadata [9,288 B]
>> Get:18 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable/non-free amd64 Packages
>> [1,874 B]
>> Fetched 5,597 kB in 0s (0
>> B/s)
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>>
>> Sorry, no more upgrades for this system
>>
>> There will not be any further Ubuntu releases for this system's
>> 'i386' architecture.
>>
>> Updates for Ubuntu 18.04 will continue until April 2023.
>>
>>
>> Restoring original system state
>>
>> Aborting
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$
>>
>>
>> On 06/10/2020 20:30, Tai Kedzierski wrote:
>>
>> OK, and for
>>
>> sudo do-release-upgrade
>>
>> ?
>>
>>
>> ===
>> Tai Kedzierski
>>
>> EdLUG Maintainer:https://edlug.gitlab.io/
>>
>> Edinburgh Language Meetup Organiser
>> https://www.meetup.com/Edinburgh-Language-Exchange-Meetup-Group/
>>
>> *Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price.*
>> https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 at 20:14, Andrew Ramage <andrew.ramage.1963 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> This is what I got :
>>
>> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo apt install -y
>> ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
>> [sudo] password for andrew:
>> Sorry, try again.
>> [sudo] password for andrew:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> ubuntu-release-upgrader-core is already the newest version (1:18.04.38).
>> 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
>> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$
>>
>>
>>
>>
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