Upgrade 12.10 sources.list

Question

I have used

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted

and the like in my sources.list. I want to try an upgrade but not sure how to fix my sources.list file. This is my backup, but it gives me a load of 404 and no upgrade option. Any way to fix?

– As in: what sources.list file to use for an upgrade from 12.10?

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.10 _Quantal Quetzal_ - Release i386 (20121017.2)]/ quantal main restricted

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal universe
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal universe
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates universe
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal multiverse
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal multiverse
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates multiverse
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates multiverse

## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner

## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main

# ME ADDED
deb http://apt.izzysoft.de/ubuntu generic universe
# Spotify
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys XXXXXXXXX
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install spotify-client
#

deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free

deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org quantal main

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ quantal partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ quantal partner

Solution

For upgrading, you only need to have these lines in your sources.list:

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse

Everything else, including the Canonical repository and the Extras repository can be (and will be, by the upgrade tool) disabled.

In the future, keep sources that you added in individual .list files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory.

Comments

[Eliah Kagan]

possible duplicate of How to install software or upgrade from old unsupported release? (I think we could even merge the answer that's here, possibly with very slight editing, and it would make a valuable addition--I think this question is asking about an important part of what is or should be addressed there)

[user129107]

Thanks. I still have problem though, but as it differ somewhat I post a new Q.