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How to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot | Desktop & Server

Written by pirat9 on . Posted in Ubuntu

Updated 30-09-2011

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Beta is released! If you have ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal or older version of ubuntu installed on your system, and you want to upgrade to this new release,  you can do it by following these instructions.

 

Important:

The most important things when it comes to upgrading are:

  1. That your data is safe
  2. That you end up with a fully functional system

Your personal data is the most valuable thing in your computer. If anything happens and you break your operating system, it’s not a problem, it can be reinstalled. If you lose your data… that’s a different story.

To be safe:

  1. Make a full backup of your data on an external device (USB stick or CD/DVD).
  2. Download and burn the liveCD of the newer release, and check that your hardware is fully functional with it.

 

- Desktop Upgrade:

So to upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 or older on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in update-manager -d into the command box. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ’11.10′ is available ( See screenshot bellow).
Before to upgrade remember that is important to update your system first then click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions:

1- Press Alt+F2 and type in update-manager -d

upgrade-to-natty1

2- Now follow these steps :

First check for updates, then Install them, and finally click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

upgrade-to-natty2

- Server Upgrade:

To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 on a server system to Ubuntu 11.10:

1- install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed:

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

2- Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set Prompt=normal;

3- Launch the upgrade tool with the command

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

and follow the on-screen instructions.

Important: This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released 9th of October 2011.

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

  • bupbup

    [quote]Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ’11.04′ is available[/quote]It doesn’t tell me that (on 10.10, almost fresh install). I followed the instructions here and [url=https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NattyUpgrades]on help.ubuntu[/url], but it keeps telling me there are no updates available.

  • Zinovsky

    As per instructions above, first update your system
    Second :P ress Alt+F2 and type in update-manager -d

    You will got the message if you want to upgrade.
    Everything posted above was tested and is working.

  • Safaricompanion

    This is by far the buggiest Ubuntu beta I have ever tested. On should not expect stability, but this is over the top in bugs. Proceed with extreme caution.

    • Bas

      I totally agree. I’m using now Windows to write this message. Despite 2 days of tweaks, 11.04 is totally unusable. I feel that they need a lot more than 30 days to fix all this. Maybe they should launch a bug fixed 10.10 version on 30 of April and leave Unity for October.

  • Gothmogh

    You can’t update directly from 10.04 to 11.04…

    You must update first to 10.10, and then to 11.

  • Memyselfandi

    I found that I had to run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade after running the update manager. All I had was a desktop and no taskbar or launcher! I freaked out but then calmly ran that command and all is well. :) So if you experience that flaw, that is the fix. If you cannot get to the terminal, which was my problem, right-click on the desktop and create a new launcher with gnome-terminal as the command.

    By the way, at first I absolutely despised Unity, but after using gnome-shell, I find Unity to be far better and I kinda like it now. :)

    Cheers!

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  • Ezion

    Calling the move from Maverick 2 Natty an upgrade is plain misleading. Your trading a stable and ergonomically sound OS for a bug ridden pile of BS.
    Even weeks after the release the support for Compiz and with it the freedom of the user to configure the system is so buggy that you risk the need of a full reinstall if you try to customize your desktop!
    This problem remains if you use the ‘classic’ mode.

    While the makers of unity say they aim for user friendliness, they actually aim for bling and being trendy. Ease of use and productivity on a desktop platform simply is not the same as ‘look how easy and WOW’ on a small screen touch device.
    BTW note Gnome3 makes similar ‘bad’ choices in this respect.

    Also note that Sygfig a key animation and video editing program is no longer available after the ‘upgrade’ to 11.04.

    If you did not upgrade already then do yourself a favor and stay with Maverick 10.10.
    Newer is not always better…

  • jacob

    I installed ubuntu 11.04 on my system but after i log in,it prompted me that unity will not work because of lack of hardware driver.please can anybody help me resolve the problem because even unity is not working so right now,i’m using ubuntu unity with no graphics.thanks

    • hgfytfjh

      jacob, you can try this:
      Click on the menu "System" -> "Administration" -> "Additional Drivers"

      and see if any proprietary drivers are available to install for your graphics card.

      These may provide the features that unity requires.

  • anonymous

    display is scrambled and unworkable after upgrade to 11.04

    geoffree

  • ravi

    this is the worst ubuntu ever….. lots of bugs … many things gone … wine doesnt wrk well in it … many applications crashes on its own … FUCK ! .. :X .. m so much upset ..

  • Shannon Johnson

    Upgraded from 10.04 to 11.04. Now all I get is a Grub command to choose which OS to use and when I choose Ubuntu all it does is goes to a black screen with an hyphen flashing and nothing else. Let it run for 3 hrs and still nothing. Tried to reboot/install from original 10.04 CD and unable to. What do I do?

    Running Windows 7 ultimate on one HDD an Ubuntu on another.

  • palani

    E: Unable to locate package vlc

  • http://www.surathgiri.com Surath Giri

    Can i pause while upgrading?? or do i have to get it done in one go??

  • Paulgrinberg

    Does this also work for Lubuntu and Xubuntu?

  • Abhijit Parida

    how much data will it download during upgrade??

    • Citricguy

      I had about 500 packages that were updated.  A few gigs at least.