confabulations – lack of LTS support
One would think that being an IT professional would require knowledge awareness in regards to end of support dates for different applications, hardware, and devices. While I may be able to keep things up to date and on track at my full time gig I seem to have missed the Gutsy Gibbon EOS date on April 18th for the app and hosting server I run.
Unfortunately, update-manager-core wasn’t installed and none of the gutsy repositories I could find were responding properly.
A bit of googling for the .deb package returned LaunchPad’s package repository:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/amd64/update-manager-core/1:0.81.3
with a list of dependencies:
lsb-release
python (<< 2.6)
python (>= 2.4)
python-apt (>= 0.6.16.2)
python-central (>= 0.5.8)
python-gnupginterface
python2.5
The only dependencies missing were pything-apt, python-central, python-gnupginterface, and python-support which is a dependency of the gnupginterface package. Using dpkg I installed the necessary dependencies then update-manager-core:
sudo dpkg -i update-manager-core*
Finally,
sudo do-release-upgrade
did the trick.
According to this blog you may have luck with a 7.10 DVD or ISO if you have one lying around.
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