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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

How to Upgrade Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

1)
First, you need to remove all 3rd party binary drivers such as NVIDIA or AMD graphics card driver.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/25528/uninstalling-atis-drivers-and-installing-nvidias

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-185-*
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current-*
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-glx-185



2)
Then run
#sudo update-manager -d

3)
Reboot the system
#sudo reboot

3 comments:

  1. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/04/upgrade-ubuntu-14-04-12-04

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  2. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-upgrade-to-ubuntu-14-04-from-ubuntu-13-10-or-12-04/

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  3. HI sir, firstly i would thank and appreciate you for the blog for making life easy.......

    I have a question, why do we need to uninstall 3rd party apps
    would ......
    1.if not uninstalled, is there any harm ?
    2.or is it the upgrade wouldn't happen without uninstallation of 3rd party apps ?
    3.Works anyways i.e with or withour uninstall of 3rd party apps ?

    Please provide a solution. Thanks Sir .........this is rajesh here.

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