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I have a personal system, which I would like to upgrade, preferably without having to do a fresh install.

So far, I have tried to use the Software Updater GUI, which prompted me to update to 21.10. However after clicking update, it hasn't followed up with any prompts or anything that I could see.

I have also tried to use do-release-upgrade and do-release-upgrade -p both of which has failed stating that my release is not supported anymore.

I have tried to use do-release-upgrade -d as well, which has failed stating that:

Upgrades to the development release are only available from the latest supported release.

After which, I've looked for ways to update an end of life distribution and found this. However editing my /etc/apt/sources.list hasn't yielded any results either.

What can I do to update my system besides a fresh install?

Peter Dobosi
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    There is no direct path to upgrade. This might work. – mikewhatever Apr 23 '22 at 01:19
  • You weren't specific as to what system you have, ie. desktop? server? etc. I keep a system for each supported release & when 21.04 reached EOL & i didn't need it anymore, I upgraded via re-install it to what was Ubuntu jammy at that time, and used the installation method where none of my files were touched, my additional packages (ie. manually installed) were re-installed and that install became jammy (now 22.04) install box & is now a jammy support box too. You can re-install without loosing data or additional packages if you're using a desktop system (key is don't format) – guiverc Apr 23 '22 at 01:43
  • Managed to upgrade to 21.10 by using the upgrade tarball, upgrading to 22.04 should be straight forward now. – Peter Dobosi Apr 23 '22 at 11:50

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