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I have set the "Software and Updates" app set to inform me of new LTS releases of the OS (ubuntu Studio 16.04 installed). 16.10 has been out for a while now, but I do not remember getting a notification. I know for sure that I did not upgrade to 16.10 unless it happened without my knowing. I checked the version in the Linux terminal and it reports 16.04, so I tried sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, but it returned: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed...

Either I am running 16.10 and the version is reported wrong (in the Linux terminal) or I am still running 16.04 and something else is wrong, but which one is it?

As for this being a possible duplicate on how to upgrade: I need to know if I am being shown the wrong OS version, or already upgraded first. I already had an answer on "How to upgrade" which did not work.

Youssef
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zoidmaster
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Check the version of Ubuntu

You can check what Ubuntu version you have by typing lsb_release -a in terminal.

OR

Open System Settings -> Click on Details and you can see the version under the Ubuntu logo.

Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support System Details

EDIT: (as requested)

To upgrade to the newer version of Ubuntu

  • Via Command line

Run do-release-upgrade in a terminal

  • Via GUI
  1. Run the update manager
  2. Click the check button to see if there is a new version available
  3. Click the install button a message will appear if there is a new version available.

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Youssef
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Cyber_Star
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To answer my own question: typing lsb_release -a in terminal did report the current version I had installed (16.04) right. The command "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" that I got from here: How to Upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 16.10 did not work. It did not tell me why, nor if it did nothing because I was already upgraded (the reason for my question).

@Mark Kirby commented: "Wrong command, use sudo do-release-upgrade. The command dist-upgrade only adds held back packages, it does not upgrade the release version. Read this askubuntu.com/questions/110477/…" When I did, an upgrade to 16.10 was available. This told me two things: I was running 16.04, and I could upgrade to 16.10, which I just got finished with a few minutes ago. So now all I have to do is keep my fingers crossed that it got rid of a few problems I had, and that it did not open a whole new can of worms.

If someone can, please upgrade Mark Kirby's comment to an answer (#1), that would be dandy.

zoidmaster
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