Friday, January 26, 2018

upgrade - Upgrading to Alpha fails due extras repositories



I try to upgrade to the latest release of Ubuntu (14.04 - Alpha).



I typed this in the Terminal:



$ sudo update-manager -d


After some checks, a popup appeared:






I clicked the Upgrade... button:





Preparing to upgrade was successful, but Setting new sofware channels fails:






How can this be fixed?



Just disable the "extra" repositories. These packages still not have trusty counter part, since most of them are for Stable versions:



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To disable the extras repositories, just remove all the extras entries from /etc/apt/sources.list file or use the software sources and untick the extras entries there.



sudo sed -i '/extras\.ubuntu\.com/d' /etc/apt/sources.list


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