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I'm using Ubuntu 9.10
Tom Brito
Posted 2010-05-05T17:11:58.530
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Can I upgrade to the new Ubuntu 10 from Ubuntu 9.10 without formatting my computer?
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If you don't have it already, you gonna need a free partition on your harddrive to install it beside your current OS. If you need to create a partition, Windows Seven (if you have Windows 7) allow you to shrink a partition so you'll be able to create some place for Ubuntu.
If you already have it , just go in Updater Manager panel and you'll have an option to upgrade to 10.04 LTS on top of it.
More details here : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Upgrade%20from%209.10%20to%2010.04%20LTS
Update : (thanks to th3dude )
Could check this out too that outline exactly what I'm talking about :
Marc-Andre R.
Posted 2010-05-05T17:11:58.530
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You are assuming they are already running Ubuntu. – th3dude – 2010-05-05T17:16:59.343
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You can use Update Manager as specified in Julien's answer, or from a terminal you can use:
sudo do-release-upgrade
ThatGraemeGuy
Posted 2010-05-05T17:11:58.530
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Yes, do ALT + F2, type "update-manager -c", and the update manager will offer you to upgrade your Ubuntu version.
nicoulaj
Posted 2010-05-05T17:11:58.530
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You are assuming they are running Ubuntu already. – th3dude – 2010-05-05T17:16:42.153
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade from a terminal will work fine too :) – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-05-05T17:26:27.557
@Sathya: No, you would need to edit the package sources first. But that's not recommended as it isn't officially supported and may or may not fail. – Florian Diesch – 2010-05-05T17:44:09.763
1@Julien Nicoulaud: don't use -d as this will upgrade to the latest devel release is possible. Use -c instead. – Florian Diesch – 2010-05-05T17:46:14.687
Hum yes, I did not notice Ubuntu 10.04 was released already. edited. – nicoulaj – 2010-05-05T17:59:42.657
Florian Diesch
Posted 2010-05-05T17:11:58.530
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Manual upgrade from Karmic to Lucid from the command line:
sudo sed -i 's/karmic/lucid/g' /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
takeshin
Posted 2010-05-05T17:11:58.530
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1Can you provide more details? Are you currently running Ubuntu? Or Windows? Or something else? – th3dude – 2010-05-05T17:17:22.430
Then my answer is the easiest way to proceed ;) Considering you have GUI installed... – Marc-Andre R. – 2010-05-05T17:21:29.893
Also somewhat related: http://superuser.com/questions/62594/update-to-ubuntu-9-10-from-ubuntu-9-04
– th3dude – 2010-05-05T17:26:13.020Yeah this is what I was talking about. I'll add it to my post, thank. – Marc-Andre R. – 2010-05-05T17:29:09.563
The update-manager should offer the option at the top of the list of package updates next time it runs – Martin Beckett – 2010-05-05T17:47:33.687