Running the regular release? Upgrade from Kubuntu 13.10

Kubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS Upgrade

You will need to:

  • Ensure 12.04 LTS is updated.
  • Run the release upgrade tool.
  • Reboot.

Ensure 12.04 LTS is Updated

1) Run Muon Update Manager.

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2) Select Install Updates.

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3) Press Alt-F2 and type kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade.
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Or once our servers have upgrade notification turned on...

3) Close and restart Muon Update Manager, it will now detect the new release. Click the "Upgrade" button.
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4) Enter your password.

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5) The upgrade tool will start.

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6) Confirm that you want to start the upgrade.

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7) It will download and install the new release; have some coffee.

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8) The last step of the entire process is to reboot your machine.

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Welcome to Kubuntu 14.04 LTS

If everything went smoothly after the upgrade and the reboot, your desktop should look like the following:

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Some Issues:

* If Muon Update Manager still doesn't detects the latest version, close it and run the following command in Konsole: sudo update-manager -d which run the Update Manager and it will find the latest Kubuntu version.

* If a version Muon Update Manager finds is Kubuntu Quantal (12.10) and not the new 14.04 LTS, then your Ubuntu is still set to receive regular (not LTS) upgrades. There must be a way to change that setting in Muon (perhaps in Muon (not Muon Update Manager) settings, Software sources dialog, tab Updates), but I cannot check for it at the moment. An easy but more technical way would be to edit a settings file /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades directly. E.g., run

kdesudo kate /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

and change line under DEFAULT settings from

Prompt=normal

to

Prompt=lts

Save and close the file. Then restart Muon Update Manager.

TrustyUpgrades/Kubuntu/12.04LTS (last edited 2014-07-02 08:12:26 by 195)