Problem

You want to uprade Ubuntu Linux to the latest version. (9.04 at this time)

Solution

to 8.04 Hardy

If your version is old enough that when you type

>sudo apt-get upgrade

and you will see 404 Errors, then You have to edit your sources.list like this.

$ sudo -s
# mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.gusty
# sed -e 's/gusty/hardy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.gusty > /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

Then, install update-manager.

$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

to 8.10 Intrepid

$ sudo -s
# mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.hardy
# sed -e 's/hardy/intrepid/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.hardy > /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

Intrepid to Jounty

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade

Finally, you can check your Ubuntu version like this.

cat /etc/lsb-release

Tags: linux

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