Questions pertaining to the do-release-upgrade utility.
Do-release-upgrade is the recommended utility for upgrading Ubuntu server installations.
Questions tagged [do-release-upgrade]
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Could not calculate the upgrade, what happened?
I am running sudo update-manager -d and start the upgrade process. I select upgrade option and when then manager enters Setting new software channels it throws an error.
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while…
topless
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22.04 LTS "sudo do-release-upgrade" does not work
sudo do-release-upgrade -cd
returns
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
New release '22.04' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
Then
sudo do-release-upgrade
returns
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
There is no development version…
kgflying
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"Your python3 install is corrupted"
I want to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS to 18.04, so ran sudo do-release-upgrade.
After downloading and extracting bionic.tar.gz I get:
Can not upgrade
Your python3 install is corrupted. Please fix the '/usr/bin/python3'
symlink.
I saw How to…
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Can't upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 because of "Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading" error
I've been trying to upgrade my version of Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. I've run all the steps from updating and upgrading both apt and apt-get, changing the settings in update manager and all of the steps described in this link. Yet I keep getting the…
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Why isn't an upgrade to 20.04 from 18.04 available yet?
I want to use do-release-upgrade to upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04, but I can't do that
do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
There is no development version of an LTS available.
It seems that this file is used, and it still points to…
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What does `do-release-upgrade` really do?
We know that do-release-upgrade “does a release upgrade”. But at a little lower level what does it really do?
I plan to do a more manual upgrade, for instance the Debian way: aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade after setting up the sources.…
Robert Siemer
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How to perform do-release-upgrade from 15.04 to 15.10 once 16.04 was already released?
I have a machine running 15.04, and while trying to use do-release-upgrade to upgrade it I realised it is forcing me to get 16.04 which I don't want because I know that our code doesn't work well with the updated Python on 16.04.
How can I do this…
sorin
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How do I upgrade from 14.04 LTS to 16.04.1 LTS?
So, today is July 21st and this page. gives me an option to download 16.04.1 LTS. However, attempting to upgrade gets me this message -
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found
What is wrong? Does it matter…
Lord Loh.
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Can I make do-release-upgrade only download packages for a later upgrade?
I'm running lubuntu 10.10, and would like to upgrade to 11.04. I have a very temperamental internet connection, so I would like to download all the packages before running the install.
According to this, there is no easy way to do this. The bug…
Menachem
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Cannot upgrade from disco 19.04 to focal 20.04 after end of life using do-release-upgrade method
At this time, I am unable to update from Disco 19.04 to Focal 20.04. I have read several current questions that have been closed, referring to some really old questions. I have already read all the 8 year old threads and followed those…
KingWm
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Can't upgrade to Ubuntu 21.04 : "Restoring original system state. Aborting"
I am trying to install Kubuntu 21.04 but I get this error that never happened before :
Restoring original system state
Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
I tried to…
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Specifically, how to upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 (next development version) from the command-line?
I am ready to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu. I know that Ubuntu 18.10 has not yet been released, but I like to live on the edge.
It also makes me feel good to get massive upgrades of over 100 packages on some days. This really makes me…
David
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Error authenticating some packages while upgrade
When I try to upgrade my ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10, it gives the following error:
It was not possible to authenticate some packages. This may be a
transient network problem. You may want to try again later. See below
for a list of unauthenticated…
Singularity
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Is the meta-release upgrade (do-release-upgrade) secure?
I am trying to understand the do-release-upgrade process i.e. the way that Ubuntu prompts me to upgrade to the next spring or autumn Ubuntu release.
After reading the sources for ubuntu-release-upgrader I found the /etc/update-manager/meta-release…
jwal
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How to remove obsolete packages after failed release upgrade via do-release-upgrade on Ubuntu?
Sometimes, when I upgrade a system via do-release-upgrade, the update process fails and the script tells me to finish the process manually via dpkg --configure -a. This is a not serious problem - after manually solving the dependencies problem and…
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