Wednesday, April 24, 2019

ubuntu is trying to upgade from 14.04 to 12.10



I'm currently on 14.04 and I want to upgrade to 14.10. When I changed the updates status from only LTS to any version I was asked to upgrade to 12.10. But I want to upgrade to 14.10, is there a way to fix this?



Note this is note a typo it actually says 12.10.



EDIT: not sure how to attach screenshots, so here they are in an Imgur album http://imgur.com/a/Sp1lL




Lsb_release -a:



No LSB modules are available.  
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise



apt-cache policy update-manager-core:



update-manager-core:  
Installed: 1:0.156.14.17
Candidate: 1:0.156.14.17
Version table:
*** 1:0.156.14.17 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:0.156.14.5 0

500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main i386 Packages
1:0.156.14 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages


as far as I know I should be running 14.04... but for some reason all of these say I'm running 12.04.5



I am really confused at this point.



You're not running 14.04 as you indicated, but you're actually running 12.04. All the output you show support this scenario.




Therefore, the proposed upgrade to 12.10 is valid. However, I recommend not to run this. Once on 12.10 you'll have to go through the long process of 12.10 → 13.04 → 13.10 → 14.04 to reach a supported release. LTS → LTS+1 upgrade path is supported and is a lot quicker. So instead, just upgrade to 14.04 directly from 12.04.


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