#Ubuntu 18.10 guake how to#
#Ubuntu 18.10 guake update#
#Ubuntu 18.10 guake 32 bit#
#Ubuntu 18.10 guake upgrade#

But the Ubuntu upgrade scripts have a little extra stuff in them and itвЂ™s nice to be able to run it just in case itвЂ™s important. ThatвЂ™s the underlying tool thatвЂ™s doing all the work anyway. I think I also could have upgraded my system simply by editing /etc/apt/sources files and relying on apt dist-upgrade. Still if it were me IвЂ™d add some flag to enable at-your-own-risk upgrades for people like me who were stuck. I suspect they just want to have nothing at all to do with older systems. IвЂ™m a little surprised Ubuntu doesnвЂ™t support this officially out of the box, it seems simple enough. No hacks necessary, youвЂ™re back on the main path. Since 19.10 is supported, all you have to do to upgrade 19.04 в†’ 19.10 is run do-release-upgrade again.Remove the /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release2 you made. Congratulations! YouвЂ™re now running 19.04.It should now be doing an upgrade 18.10 в†’ 19.04. (It will also avoid any redownloads overwriting your changes.) That will tell the upgrader to use your modified file instead of the original. tarelease_information = open(self.METARELEASE_FILE + '2', 'r') tarelease_information = open(self.METARELEASE_FILE, 'r') Edit the file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py.

#Ubuntu 18.10 guake update#

I changed all link inВ meta-release2 for disco to and its works.вЂќ I canвЂ™t test this but it seems plausible of Ubuntu finally moved the disco update files out of the live repo (say, in preparation for the 20.04 release.) write to say вЂњI found that ubuntu repo returns 404 and `do-release-upgrade` canвЂ™t run update. Modify the disco entry so it says Supported: 1

#Ubuntu 18.10 guake how to#

This file was downloaded by do-release-upgrade from the Internet and tells the upgrader how to upgrade.

As root, go in to /var/lib/update-manager and copy the file meta-release to a new file meta-release2.

But behind the scenes, the tool will download some metadata files we want to modify. This will give you an error about being unsupported.

zRun do-release-upgrade on the 18.10 system.

It worked for me, but no idea if it will work for you. Needless to say, the instructions below come with a big warning this may break your system. The packages needed to do the 18.10 в†’ 19.04 upgrade are still online, do-release-upgrade just wasnвЂ™t finding them. AlejandroвЂ™s suggestion boils down to intercepting those metadata files after download and hacking them to point to 19.04 instead of 19.10. Instead it downloads metadata files from the Internet and uses those to figure out what to do. It turns out UbuntuвЂ™s do-release-upgrade tool is a generic program, the version installed on an 18.10 system is not 18.10 specific. The gist of the solution is to hack a config file to force an 18.10 в†’ 19.04 update. And itвЂ™s no longer possible to upgrade 18.10 в†’ 19.04 because 19.04 is also not supported. The underlying problem is do-release-upgrade on 18.10 was trying to upgrade directly from 18.10 в†’ 19.10. (Note that this tool is bundled in the ubuntu-release-upgrader-core package) Fortunately one of my readers Alejandro saw my post and suggested a solution. Ubuntu 18.10 is fully end of life and deprecated and the do-release-upgrade tool we normally use to upgrade things refused to run.

I donвЂ™t know how to help you with that.ДЄ couple of weeks ago I blogged about being unable to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) to 19.10 (eoan), or even 19.04 (disco).

#Ubuntu 18.10 guake 32 bit#

Finally, if you see an error about вЂњUpgrades from 18.04 on the i386 architecture are not supportedвЂќ that is sadly true 32 bit support stopped in 18.04. Some folks are finding their way to this blog searching for вЂњAn upgrade from вЂcosmicвЂ™ to вЂeoanвЂ™ is not supported with this tool.вЂќ That makes sense, itвЂ™s the error the upgrade tool gives. Update (March 2020): IвЂ™ve heard from 10+ people who say these instructions work for them, I think itвЂ™s reliable.