0

I Opened my old laptop for the first time in years , and it's still on Ubuntu 10.10. Can't seem to figure out how to get it to upgrade to the most recent version.

Any help would be appreciated ?

nux
  • 38,017
  • 35
  • 118
  • 131
user255611
  • 17
  • 1

2 Answers2

3

You can't really do an upgrade from 10.10 to a recent version without passing through a lot of intermediate versions. A better plan would be to do a clean install after copying any files you want to keep elsewhere.

Also, if it's that old, you might consider Lubuntu, as it is less demanding of memory and processing.

Marc
  • 9,980
1

Unfortunately, 10.10 is an unsupported and obsolete version as per Upgrade Notes

However; you may have a look to the following article for some work around.

another suggestion -although lengthy and requires a lot of downloads is to download 11.04 and 11.10 ISOs from Ubuntu Old Releases and do an offline upgrade 10.10 > 11.04 > 11.10

  • Nice guide with illustrations Here

then you should be able to upgrade normally from 11.10 to 12.04 LTS

and for sure, Lubuntu is the best candidate for your old laptop.

Community
  • 1
Ahmadgeo
  • 1,401