It does not matter how old is your Ubuntu, there is certainly something like this. For Ubuntu 9. You don't need this things anymore since your Ubuntu version is End of Life :. Insert exactly next line when you are asked:. If your version of Ubuntu is other than 9.
Just be sure that you have a working internet connection:. And now you are free to download almost whatever you want. For 9. For newest releases there is Ubuntu Software Center. For example to install VLC in Ubuntu 9. I tested this method from a live session of Ubuntu 9. If you are on an installed session of Ubuntu you will be asked sometimes for root or admin password. Just insert your personal user password when you are asked. I got here since I could not upgrade a system from But none of the answers worked for me, even after doing everything that was suggested here I kept getting from sudo do-release-upgrade the annoying response:.
And I had no success in running update-manager ; it kept throwing exceptions which I could not resolve. I suspect something is corrupted in my Locate the release you want to upgrade to. In my case it was Xenial Xerus You can find the corresponding codenames on Release - Ubuntu Wiki. Download the tarball from that URL into an empty folder and and extract it. Locate the executable file with the same name as the distribution in my case xenial. Run it with sudo :. Approve the upgrade, and wait for the download to complete - there's thousands of files and likely over a Gigabyte.
Proceed with installing the upgrade. After the reboot the new version is running successfully, and all updates can be fetched normally. To get apt-get working again, change your software sources to the old release repositories.
While fossfreedom 's answer does a good job of describing and solving the problem , I've found a variant solution that I think is easier and a little more elegant. Choose a fake location for the old-releases server e. LOC:US , and add the following line under it:. Now open the system's Software Sources dialog, and manually select old-releases. You should find it listed under the fake location you chose in the previous step. The next time you reload your package information via Synaptic or Update Manager, you should see it successfully retrieving updated package information.
It appears the Karmic repositories are no longer available. Since they are for a previous version of Ubuntu, you might consider removing them from your sources list. Take a look at this help page for step-by-step. If your Ubuntu Kubuntu , Xubuntu , Mythbuntu , whatever-buntu is really old, you will have to take three steps to upgrade to an up-to-date version:. Example: I was on Ubuntu The process described above worked for me to upgrade to an unsupported release, and then to the last LTS release and I couldn't upgrade anymore.
What I did: Ubuntu Then I found the -p --proposed option of do-release-upgrade. It tries to upgrade to the newest available release! And it worked: I skipped two releases and jumped directly from Ubuntu Maybe it would have worked to upgrade Ubuntu There is an edge case - apt-get claims But apt-get could only find kernel and Google updates.
I am not sure exactly what my problem was because I had blindly followed the accepted answers sed command never a smart move.
This did not work because Vivid was not in the "old-releases" archive but was still on the gb. Carefully go through all the sources and discover one of them was old and wrong and had failed to be properly updated or something.
Or, as I did, search replace from old-releases. It then upgraded, without a problem, to the next release while I caught up on some reading. You can figure out which of the archive or your mirror has the version you need by simply pointing a browser tab at the archive and question and looking for your version name in the folder list.
Whichever one has your version, is the source you need to use. If you have EOL release and if you do not afraid of reinstalling your system from scratch or just without formatting this older system, than you could try it.
It tried only of curiocity and for testing purposes. Not real hardware, but VM have been used for this. But strangely if you have EOL on prod. Trying to correctly answer the question I've installed Ubuntu During upgrade it failed to restart different services and even rejected to reboot or shutdown correctly. I've powered the VM off and started it again. Testing: Applications are opened correctly. Installed scribus , snap , mariadb-server , docker , openssh-server using sudo apt install without issues.
Installed gimp using snap: snap install gimp --classic Authentication prompt appeared and after password input installation started. In my case I was stuck in But the other day, Ubuntu automatically gives me the option to do a Partial Upgrade to So I think I could be able to do another upgrade to The solution what I found today, 16 December , to make an upgrade in Ubuntu Ubuntu Community Ask!
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? Among the simplest methods, that can be used in Debian based distributions, especially on Ubuntu systems, is the method presented in this tutorial, which involves only booting the machine into the Ubuntu live DVD ISO image.
On the first screen, choose the language and press [Enter] key to continue. On the next screen, press F6 function key in order to open the other options menu and select Expert mode option. Then, hit Escape key to return to Boot Options line in editing mode, as illustrated in the below screenshots.
Next, edit Ubuntu live image boot options by using the keyboard arrows to move the cursor just before the quiet string and write the following sequence as illustrated in the below screenshot. On the next screen select the language you want to perform the system rescue and press [enter] key to continue.
Next, select your appropriate location from the presented list and press [enter] key to move further. On the next series of screens, select your keyboard layout as illustrated in the below screenshots. After detecting your machine hardware, loading some additional components and configuring the network you will be asked to setup your machine hostname.
Next, based on the supplied physical location the installer image will detect your time zone. This setup will accurately work only if your machine is connected to internet.
Just press Yes to continue further. Here, you should choose your machine root file system from the provided list. In case your installed system uses a logical volume manager to delimit partitions, it should be easy to detect your root partition from the list by reviewing volume group names as illustrated in the below screenshot. After selecting the root partition press [Enter] key to continue.
Select Yes and press [Enter] key to continue. In this particular case, I spot-checked several versions dating back to , and in every case the final link to download an ISO resulted in an error message. Does this answer your question? Where can I find the status of the released versions of Ubuntu?
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