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Today, Ubuntu 8.10 was released.  As usual, I like to be up to date, so I went and updated my VirtualBox desktop image first and then went onto upgrading my server images.  I started out by running the normal update commands:

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade
• sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

You want to make sure your current version is up to date, before upgrading to a new version.  I then went onto execute the normal commands I run for upgrading:

• sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
• sudo do-release-upgrade

Well, to my surprise, the "do-release-upgrade" reported that there was no upgrade available!  I know there is an upgrade available, but it just was not working!  After searching around I found that I needed to do the following:

• Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrade
• Change "Prompt=lts" to Prompt=normal"

"lts" means only upgrade when there is a new long term support version.  Version 8.04 was a long term support version and 8.10 was not.  Changing the value to "normal" means always do the upgrades when a new version is available.