every time I try to upgrade my system it keeps telling me to check my internet connection as if there's no internet when there obviously is, since I'm using it to post this. I honestly don't know what to try or do. even the partial update doesn't work. is there any way I can just wipe 14.04 and install a newer version?
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Recently I have installed an older version of Ubuntu on my old machine. Whenever I try to install any software, I get an error saying it couldn't be found:  $ sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done                Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done     E: Couldn't find package vlc
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I answered  about do-release-upgrade not allowing an upgrade of 14.10 to 15.04 only to 15.10, I assumed it was due to 15.04 being end of life.  A user (@xangua ) posted that it was not possible to skip a release with do-release-upgrade, so I looked in to this information by running the command on my 14.04 box, but this is where the confusion began.  My 14.04 wants to upgrade straight to 15.04?   Of course this invalidates my answer as 15.04 is end of life, but why does this command seem to be skipping versions, if not based on end of life?   There is no indication any thing from 14.10 is being downloaded by the upgrade and software-updater says Ubuntu 15.04 is now available for download, some clarification of this would be great.
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I have been trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 but when I try   do-release-upgrade -c   I get this output  Checking for a new Ubuntu release No new release found.   I have checked the release date to be 26th April but still, I didn't get any update...   I am a little new to Linux, so pardon me if I am mistaken on any point.
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I'm pretty new to running linux, but I know that 19.04 was released today and I wanted to upgrade from my current 18.10. However, when I follow the release notes here:  I get the message "The software on this computer is up to date". I made sure that my update settings are set to "any new version" and "normal" in the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades file.   What am I doing wrong?  Thanks for the help!  Side note: I had to disable this PPA:  because it would cause errors in apt updating. Do I need to re-add it? If so how do I do so without it giving me an error?  Edit: I have followed the procedure recommended in the documentation which is identical to the suggested duplicate, but I am not given the option to upgrade. I have not yet tried the   do-release-upgrade -d    option as I don't want to upgrade to the developer version.
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I am trying to install current stable version 0.12.1, but it only installs 0.9.9. Any chance to install latest version with apt-get install? It seems that 0.9.9 is very old :(
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How can I fix this? I can't update anything at all.   I've tried to switch to my best server in the options.  When I do sudo apt-get update, this is what I get:     W: Failed to fetch     Unable to find   expected entry 'universe/binary-1386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong   sources.list entry or malformed file) E: Some index files failed to   download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.*   When I do sudo apt-get upgrade, I get this:     Reading package lists... Done      Building dependency tree             Reading state information... Done      0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.   the contents of my source.list:     deb  quantal universe restricted main   ....update: when I update, it looks for 'universe/binary-1386/Packages'  however, if I go to: ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu/dists/quantal/Release with Google Chrome, I see that the file is actually named "universe/binary-i386/Packages" (it's with an i, not a 1) . how can I fix this and make it expect the proper package?
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I have a server running 12.04.4 32 bits Ubuntu server, and I wonder if there could be any unsolvable problem updating to 14.04.1 as the terminal suggest me (using do-release-upgrade) to do.
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When I started my laptop, there was no network service, and also no network icon in the top bar. It gives an error when I start OS like "Sorry, Ubuntu 14.04 experienced an internal error". When I click details, it says the error is occurred in the executable path usr/sbin/NetworkManager. Also, when I try to enter Network in the System Settings, it says "the system network services are not compatible with this version"  How can I solve this shocking issue?  p.s. I didn't install any third party packages/apps related with networking. Only system updates are installed.
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After updating to Windows 7 SP1 I updated with every new update that came out, but there were problems with the last two:    UPDATE: In the updates history I have found a lot of updates failed:    What can be done? Can I manually update?  P.S. I was offered a fix for this: Windows6.1-KB947821-v12-x64. Should I install?
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I'm really struggling to update my ubuntu os... I've got three different versions of it on my pc namely Blackbox, twm &amp; Kde/ kubuntu. However I can't access my software updater from any of them neither will my normal auto updates show.  Any suggestions please
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I havent used my Ubuntu for quite a long time.  Today, when I booted Ubuntu (14.04 LTS), the software updater and Software &amp; Updates (from Settings) are not working.  The software updater's window will show up for around 1 sec, but it will close automatically. Software &amp; Updates is never shown, no matter how many times I click the icon. Note that neither of them show any error message.  Those 2 features were working perfectly the last time I used Ubuntu. I want to do some system upgrade and update.  For now, I use sudo apt-get update &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get upgrade. This command runs very fast, meaning (I think) my Ubuntu is not updated properly. The update from software updater always has a big size hence the download should be slower.  What should I do?   Can I just uninstall and reinstall both of them? If I can, how to do it?  Just to clarify, I don't want to upgrade my Ubuntu version (I want the LTS one), I just want to upgrade the software/packages I used.  Thanks for your time.
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I wanted to update Ubuntu manually, because I used CDMA USB modem and connected using wvdial, but it won't able to update Ubuntu via Update Manager, because my Ubuntu won't showing "Connected" message via network-manager.  Can I update Ubuntu manually? Am I should download separate files, or use terminal instead?
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Just what the title says. The update manager is also asking me to update to Ubuntu 12.10 even when I have the part unchecked that says "Check for new Ubuntu version updates" thing. Is there some way to turn the annoying update manager off?
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I am trying to upgrade to a new Ubuntu version but the update manager does not recognize an update. Why not?
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Not a problem, but have been seeing questions recently of people not being offered upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04.  I thought these upgrades were offered back in June.  I upgraded to 20.04 from 19.10 and this was offered back in May.  Imagine that different versions paths have different schedules, but google does not help explaining(that I found).  Does someone know the schedules?
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So I have Ubuntu installed on my pc, and I want to upgrade to the new Ubuntu which was just released. When I check for any new updates it doesn't show any upgrades to the new release. How can I fix this? Thanks!
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I need the update manager to only download a single package at a time and not try to download multiple packages at once.  My slow internet cannot handle multiple connections; slows the download to a crawl and some packages will reset themselves halfway through when they time-out.  EDIT  When using apt-get update multiple repositories get checked:   When using apt-get upgrade multiple packages are downloaded: