Ubuntu 8.10 update. How?

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mresc2011-09-17 11:38:55

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mresc, 2011-09-17 11:38:55

I'm sitting in complete frustration in front of a server with Ubuntu 8.10 (of course not LTS) and I'm thinking about how to upgrade to the latest versions.

Backing up data and configs with the subsequent full installation of the new version somehow does not please, I leave this option as the last alternative.

The standard update procedure does not work, because. the next version 9.04 (of course also not LTS) is also no longer supported and the packages are not available.

Does anyone have any experience or interesting ideas?

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hybridcattt, 2011-09-17
@mresc

You need a disk with 9.04 :) I think it will not be difficult to download the image in the open spaces

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Alexey, 2011-09-17
@alexxxst

We change the sources in /etc/apt/apt.list to the desired version.
Then sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
This always worked :) And jumped over versions.

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png, 2011-09-17
@png

IMHO, there is no other option.
Even with the standard procedure, it is not a fact that everything will work later. Manual actions are unavoidable.

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Evgeny Yablokov, 2011-09-17
@Gular

See the list of packages that will be updated to get you started.
>> The standard update procedure does not work because the next version 9.04 (of course also not LTS) is also no longer supported and the packages are not available.
archive.ubuntu.com/
In general, the percentage of how many problems there will be depends on what and how much software is running on the server.

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asm0dey, 2011-09-17
@asm0dey

And if you try before 11.10 via do-release-upgrade -d?