Does dist-upgrade require PPA software to be uninstalled first?

Question

I'm still running Ubuntu 10.04 with quite a few PPAs. Amongst the PPAs there is Guiodic (Guido Iodice) Lucid quasi-rolling :) PPA which brings most recent versions of many programs to my desktop.

My steps:

sudo update-manager -d
click on upgrade on the appearing window
wait for the magic to happen: prepare to upgrade and setting new software channels
during 'calculating the changes' I will get the following error message in the panel

An error occurred, please run Package Manager form the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: ' Error: Marking the upgrade (E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolver generated breaks, this may be caused by help packages.)'This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies

When I check Synaptic/apt-get I can't find any errors or hint toward broken packages

Could this error be because of many PPA versions being newer than 10.04 original versions?

Could you post the error message you get from running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade? — Isaiah, Feb 23 '11 at 19:50
I'm sorry that I did not provide sufficient details in the first place. I hope that now the issue is more clear. — seb, Feb 23 '11 at 20:44
It seems the direct answer to my question is NO. Should I ask another question regarding the error message? — seb, Feb 24 '11 at 19:24
@DoR the only error I get is shown in the image above: WARNING: Failed to read mirror file — seb, Feb 24 '11 at 19:26
@seb I am starting to think that this is a bug/problem with update-manager. — Jorge Castro, Feb 27 '11 at 16:02
@Jorge found something at http://list.debian.org and http://debianforum.de and will have a look at the output of apt-get upgrade -f — seb, Feb 27 '11 at 18:37
@seb Excellent! Do keep updating your question with the information, perhaps that output will help solve your problem. — Jorge Castro, Feb 27 '11 at 18:41

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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As hhlp pointed out the update-manager will comment out PPAs before it upgrades you to 10.10.

There are also command line instructions here which talk about do-release-upgrade, which is the supported method of upgrading via CLI:

Upgrading from the command line?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Feb 23 '11 at 19:58

Jorge Castro

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hhlp · Answer 2 · 2011-02-27T14:48:29.030

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you have Ubuntu already installed 10.04 and you want to update your version to version 10.10, then click Alt+F2 and run "update-manager", will open a new window.

Click the Update button and start the download and update packages, depending on the state of the network can take a few hours.

this process will comment all your PPA before updated.....

Official documentation on upgrading

edited Feb 27 '11 at 14:48

answered Feb 23 '11 at 19:56

hhlp

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I'm sorry guys that I did not provide sufficient details in the first place, see above. – seb Feb 23 '11 at 20:46

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '12 at 06:26

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It seems the direct answer to my question is NO. see above comments.

answered Apr 13 '12 at 06:26

seb

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Does dist-upgrade require PPA software to be uninstalled first?

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