Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Upgrade Ubuntu Server 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

Ubuntu 7.04 is the current stable version of the Ubuntu operating system. The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Feisty Fawn”.

Before Upgrading You need to remember the following point

Take comple backup of your server before upgrading Now you need to upgraded Ubuntu Edgy Server to Ubuntu Feisty.

You have to update the sources.list file to apt-get be able to find the update-manager-core package

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

and Change every occurrence of edgy to feisty

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
to

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

Update the new lists of packages by doing

sudo apt-get update

Install update-manager-core

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

Launch the upgrade tool

sudo do-release-upgrade

Follow the on-screen instructions

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