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I received a message this morning announcing that the new Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04 is now available. I had to use the computer for something pretty urgent so I told Ubuntu to ask me to upgrade later.

After my business was over, I tried to find a way to bring back that upgrade window. I tried restarting but it didn't seem to reappear. So I went to my settings, opened up "About This Computer" and clicked on "Install Updates"... but it didn't work. I tried it multiple times but it always shows an error message: "Make sure you are connected to the internet"; but my internet works fine -- I can surf, watch and all that on my computer... but not upgrade, for some reason!

Is it because there is a lot of traffic on the download server or something? I would love to upgrade as soon as possible!

Thanks in advance for your timely response!

Robel Bayisa
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  • Do you have 'upgrading to the newest verion' on just for lts versions(if you do change to upgrade to the latest versions) or the update manager doens't work at all? –  Apr 28 '13 at 15:29

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run sudo do-release-upgrade another way that is not usually recommended is this:

`sudo sed -i "s/$(lsb_release -sc)/raring/" /etc/apt/sources.list{"",".d/*"};sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`

the second one will also update any ppa you have, but if they don't have a raring version yet they will 404 error on you (eg getdeb) If you have a nvidia gpu is highly recommend using this before rebooting:
https://github.com/GM-Script-Writer-62850/Ubuntu-Mainline-Kernel-Updater

GM-Script-Writer-62850
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  • Thanks for the code, 13.04 is now being downloaded with 14 minutes left to go. I have an old Mobile Intel x3100 GPU (which doesn't seem to be recognised -- but that's another issue) so I didn't think I'd need the Mainline Kernel Updater and went straight to the Terminal instead. Thanks so much! – Robel Bayisa Apr 28 '13 at 15:38