Most Ubuntu derivatives *cannot* be successfully upgraded in this way. Ubuntu
might offer an upgrade, but it *might not work* if third-party software is
present — the third-party PPA (“.personal package archive") it's referring to
is in fact the KDE desktop as provided by KDE Neon — unless you've installed a
PPA yourself (which seems unlikely).
I suggest you seek assistance on the forums to be found at www.pine64.org
rather than on here: the normal procedure with Ubuntu derivatives is to make a
fresh install of the operating system concerned. The reason for the difference
in version numbers is that 20.04 is a *Ubuntu* version number, not KDE Neon.
David Gee
Gateshead
On 6 Sep 2020, at 00:01, David R Lane <D_Lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <1d0c45aa58.riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ZFPSystems <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <e83ce2a958.D_Lane@D_Lane.Phonecoop.coop>
David R Lane <D_Lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My ARMbook is on version 5.19 of KDE Neon. It was recently offered an
update to version 20.x. Attempting the update failed, perhaps not
surprisingly given the gap between the version numbers. So, two questions:
which version are others on; and why is my ARMbook being offered version
20.x? There was something about v5.19 being a users version and the update
being a business version.
Dave Lane
Hi Dave,
before you attempt a major version upgrade you should first make sure your
system is to the latest updates of your current version.
To do that, open a terminal and type:
sudo apt update
(it'll ask you for your pwd)
When the above has completed, run:
sudo apt full-upgrade -y
Let it go until it's completed, when done reboot your ARMBook and then try
to move to release 20 again.
Hope this helps!
Not really, but thanks for trying!
After the command line stuff above and a reboot, I got the same errors as
before when attempting the "upgrading of KDE Neon User Edition 5.19 to
version 20.04" as follows.
"Some Third party entries in your sources list were disabled. You can
enable them after upgrade with 'software-properties' tool in your package
manager".
After closing that error window, another error window says:
"Can't install Neon-desktop report as a bug using
'ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal".
Close that window and get a third error window saying:
"Could not determine the upgrade, likely to be due to unofficial software
packages not provided by Ubuntu. Please use tool 'ppa-purge' from the
ppa-purge package to remove software from a Launchpad PPA and try the
upgrade again. Can investigate this by looking at log files in ......"
zzzzz....
This reminds me of problems upgrading Mickey$oft Windows on my Wife's
computer sometime ago: error windows and a refusal to upgrade. When I have
recovered, I'll have a look at the log files.
Dave Lane
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