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I upgraded from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx to Maverick Meerkat with the following commands:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo vi /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

and changed the last line to Prompt=normal

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

This upgrade was OK.

I decided to repeat the same steps and to upgrade Maverick Meerkat to Natty Narwhal. It ended with this message:

Building data structures... Done

Calculating the changes

Calculating the changes

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: Can not mark 'xubuntu-desktop' for upgrade

This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.

Restoring original system state

Aborting Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done
=== Command detached from window (Mon Nov 21 09:37:21 2011) ===
=== Command terminated with exit status 1 (Mon Nov 21 09:37:21 2011) ===

How can I correct it?

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    have you got any PPAs enabled in software sources or someother non-standard repository?
    – fossfreedom ♦
    Commented Nov 21, 2011 at 9:58
  • This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file
    – xralf
    Commented Nov 21, 2011 at 10:03
  • also... the -d switch is to upgrade to the development version - you dont need to do this... what happens when you just run sudo do-release-upgrade ?
    – fossfreedom ♦
    Commented Nov 21, 2011 at 11:11
  • The upgrade is working without -d. You can write as an asnwer. Thanks
    – xralf
    Commented Nov 21, 2011 at 11:49

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The key part of the error message you have reported is the following:

  • Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
  • Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
  • Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

Most often the error is due to PPAs still enabled - you should ppa-purge these repositories -

the format is 

sudo ppa-purge ppa:[ppa-name]

where the [ppa-name] is the name of the repository defined in your software-sources screen.

I also note you have used the syntax do-release-upgrade -d. The -d flag denotes upgrade to the latest available development release.

A simple sudo do-release-upgrade should be sufficient to upgrade to the next stable release of Ubuntu.

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