Upgrading to Alpha fails due extras repositories

Question

I try to upgrade to the latest release of Ubuntu (14.04 - Alpha).

I typed this in the Terminal:

$ sudo update-manager -d

After some checks, a popup appeared:

I clicked the Upgrade... button:

Preparing to upgrade was successful, but Setting new sofware channels fails:

How can this be fixed?

This is not uncommon on alpha releases. 14.04 is very much still in development and not ready for anybody other than the developers. This question is off topic here see There's an issue with an Alpha/Beta Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?. — Warren Hill, Nov 19 '13 at 16:46
@WarrenHill Is this really a bug or I have some settings that must be fixed on my machine? — Ionică Bizău, Nov 19 '13 at 16:48
This is not a bug but a feature! The extras entries from /etc/apt/sources.list must be removed to be able to upgrade. So, I believe that the close votes can be removed... — Ionică Bizău, Nov 19 '13 at 18:25

Braiam · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-19T18:18:11.483

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Just disable the "extra" repositories. These packages still not have trusty counter part, since most of them are for Stable versions:

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To disable the extras repositories, just remove all the extras entries from /etc/apt/sources.list file or use the software sources and untick the extras entries there.

sudo sed -i '/extras\.ubuntu\.com/d' /etc/apt/sources.list

edited Nov 19 '13 at 18:18

answered Nov 19 '13 at 16:54

Braiam

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