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I'm currently messing with a orangepi R1 - it's an arm hf board that the developer has supplied an image for. It's allegedly Ubuntu server but 15.04 (I have my doubts that it's an actual Ubuntu server build since there's a ton of lxde packages floating around), and I'd like to get it up to a modern version of Ubuntu.

If it was x86, I could set up the old version repos, and do a release update through the versions or do a fresh install. There's no old releases repo for http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ - which is what this uses.

Is there any way to get this up to a modern LTS version of Ubuntu?

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    Just use old-releases.ubuntu.com I think it has the armhf packages on there too. But you may want to consider just a straight reinstall... not sure if the UBports project supports old boards though – Thomas Ward Jun 06 '19 at 15:22
  • Not as far as I can tell on both. I'd love to do a straight reinstall but, well, doing that is probably another AU question – Journeyman Geek Jun 06 '19 at 15:24
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    you sure about that? I see armhf stuff in http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ in the packages pool... not sure if 15.04/15.10 is still kept around though – Thomas Ward Jun 06 '19 at 15:27

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Its been a while but - as one can tell from my question, it ended up being a horribly hacked together mismash of different builds. Essentially there's no way to get the original/official orange pi image up to date.

There was no official release but the armbian build of Ubuntu worked fine.

From there things worked as they should have

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