Upgrade Ubuntu from 18.10 to 19.04

Question

Software updater tells me I can do the upgrade, when I do it, at stage "installing upgrades", I get:

Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nmap/nmap-common_7.70+dfsg1-6_all.deb 403  Forbidden [IP: 194.158.119.186 80]

I tried:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

It stays there is nothing to upgrade

I also tried solution from this post, but it didnt work.

What can I do ?

Have you tried it again? I can download that file without issue. — guiverc, Jul 11 '19 at 11:57
Have you read this question? https://askubuntu.com/questions/5763/upgrading-from-the-command-line — yusuf hari, Jul 11 '19 at 12:44
We are going to be suggesting things here that we think will work. One thing that I can think of is that since nmap is not actually installed by default, try removing it first by doing sudo apt remove nmap then try your upgrade again. — Terrance, Jul 11 '19 at 12:46
@Juliatzin - you do realize sudo apt dist-upgrade is not the correct way to release-upgrade from 18.10 to 19.04. I assume you are trying to fully-upgrade your system prior to performing the release-upgrade step. — guiverc, Jul 11 '19 at 12:51
@guiverc yep, I have the same issue with do-release-upgrade. I'm trying to remove nmpa as Terrance suggested — Juliatzin del Toro, Jul 11 '19 at 13:27
remove nmap seems to be working. I'll confirm when it s done :) — Juliatzin del Toro, Jul 11 '19 at 13:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '19 at 14:21

nmap is actually and application that is not installed by default, so it should be safe to remove it before upgrading your distro of Ubuntu.

sudo apt remove nmap

After you run through the upgrade you should be able to reinstall nmap later by running

sudo apt install nmap

Hope this helps!

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