Upgrade from 7.4 to 7.10 hangs during install

[rcoll29541]

Hello all;

I am currently installing 7.10 from 7.4 and the install hangs up at the beginning of the install. The download is fine and everything seems to be normal and then it stops at "Preparing to configure libasound2" This is my third attempt and I'm not sure what to do. I'm new at Linux so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
rcoll

[integr8e]

Re: Upgrade from 7.4 to 7.10 hangs during install

Try this:

- Click on this link to go to the Ubuntu sources.list Generator.

- Fill out all the information, and choose 'ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)' as your desired release. Tick the '...to include source repositories' option and click the 'Send' button; check the 'supported', 'community supported', and 'backports' options, and choose the 'Create sourcel.list' button.

- Press Alt+F2 and run the command

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

- Replace everything in Kate with the list of repos you just generated; save and close the file.

- Open Konsole and run the following series of commands:

sudo aptitude install -f && sudo dpkg --configure -a

sudo aptitude clean && sudo aptitude autoclean

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade

- Stay near your computer after the packages finish downloading, because you will be asked several questions; just choose 'yes' for each answer.

- Once you're finished with that, run the command

sudo update-grub

. . . restart your computer and you should be running Gutsy!