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Upgrade Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

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Upgrade Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.

Note: This is still a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in October 2007.

Before Upgrading You need to remember the following Important point

Take complete backup of your system before upgrading .Now you need to upgraded Ubuntu Feisty Machine to Ubuntu Gutsy.

If you want to upgrade using GUI use the following procedure

Use the Alt+F2 key combination to bring up the Run Application dialog, where you'll want to enter the following command

update-manager -c -d

"-c" switch tells it to look for upgrades at all.

"-d" switch means "development"

You should see the following screen here Now you can see 7.10 is available for upgrade click on upgrade

Now you should see the release notes as follows here you need to click on upgrade

Preparing for the upgrade in Progress

You can see similar to the following screen about end of support for some applications click on close

Now you should see the following screen to start upgrade click on start upgrade

Fetching the upgrades are in progress

Installing the upgrades are in progress

Cleaning Up is in Progress

You need to restart the system to complete the Upgrade by clicking "Restart Now"

Testing Your Upgrade

You can check the ubuntu version installed using the following command

sudo lsb_release -a

Output Looks like below

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