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I understand that Ubuntu Unity 21.10 is available. I am using Ubuntu 20.04LTS with a Unity desktop display (which mostly works). What do I need to do to install Ubuntu Unity 21.10? Will such an installation trash the applications I have currently installed?

snoylr
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  • does this article answer your question? – graham Nov 09 '21 at 16:57
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    Migrating from 20.04 to 21.10 requires a reinstall. A reinstall might (or might not) trash your data and applications -- it depends on your skill reading the installer prompts and whether your system is highly customized or not. – user535733 Nov 09 '21 at 17:22
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    I would stay with 20.04, 22.04 will be out next spring and has five years of support. 21.10 only supported for nine months. Might be mistaken but Ubuntu Unity 21.10 is a full OS install, not just an update for unity, so you would be installing over your OS. – crip659 Nov 09 '21 at 17:24
  • Then, if I were to try to install Unity, I would need to download the ISO onto media and proceed from there, I take it. I had hoped there would be a way to directly install from the web. Guess I'm being to optomistic. – snoylr Nov 09 '21 at 18:42
  • Please be aware; in https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic, you'll note Ubuntu and official flavors of Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours) are on-topic on this site. The on-topic link provides alternate SE sites for non-Ubuntu OSes. Ubuntu Unity is a unofficial re-spin at this point in time (off-topic), hoping to become an official flavor (on-topic). – guiverc Nov 09 '21 at 21:06
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    Does this answer your question? How to install unity desktop over gnome? – N0rbert Nov 09 '21 at 22:40
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    Ubuntu Unity is not an official flavor of Ubuntu. – Archisman Panigrahi Feb 03 '22 at 06:26
  • I will provide details for official flavors of Ubuntu. You can upgrade via re-install main Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu-MATE, Ubuntu-Studio, Ubuntu-Budgie.. as a clean install where the system is new & nothing is saved; or as an unclean install where no user file is touched, your user configs are untouched & remain the same & manually installed packages get re-installed automatically post-install; ie. you control what is done. However you're asking about a Ubuntu respin and not flavor and I don't know what will happen there (and you're off-topic on this site!) – guiverc Feb 03 '22 at 06:40

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