my ubuntu 16.04 wont update

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I've tried updating Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 but when I try from GUI it tells me I need permissions and then soon after, it prompts me to update but when I press update, it goes away and nothing happens. I've tried updating via terminal but it gives me this

sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]                                                     
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,251 kB]                                                            
Fetched 1,252 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                           
authenticate 'bionic.tar.gz' against 'bionic.tar.gz.gpg' 
extracting 'bionic.tar.gz'
Reading cache
Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done
Hit http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease

Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease

Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [99.8 kB]

Hit https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu xenial InRelease

Hit https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease

Hit https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease

Get:2 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic InRelease [6,263 B]

Get:3 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease [8,041 B]

Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [99.8 kB]

Get:5 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu xenial-infra-security InRelease [7,518 B]

Ign https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic InRelease

Get:6 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu xenial-infra-updates InRelease [7,475 B]

Ign https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease

Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [326 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [281 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [5,960 B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [93.8 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [130 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,464 B]
Fetched 1,068 kB in 0s (0 B/s)

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done
Restoring original system state
Aborting
Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

It's worth mentioning that the laptop I'm using is a Chromebook in developer mode using crouton to run ubuntu.

the laptop is powerful enough for the update.

the version of ubuntu running now is Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS 64-bit and to my knowledge, it's running some form of gnome. I'm very new to Linux so I'm not sure.

You haven't given your architecture; but not all architectures had ESM support, so you may have more difficulties if you're not amd64 or one of the supported architectures. Once all upgrades for 16.04 are applied you should find upgrades occur; however if your system is a non-ESM supported architecture, a re-install maybe necessary given 16.04 has been unsupported for so long, and upgrade requires the system have all updates applied (no longer possible for all architectures). — guiverc, Aug 09 '22 at 22:46
ps: Ubuntu 16.04 reached EOSS on 30 April 2021 so release-upgrade should have been done before that date, or shortly after. A re-install is the easiest way when you miss EOL (16.04 support is extended for some architectures via ESM; did you enable ESM? if you didn't that may be your issue depending on where you are in the world & network traffic) — guiverc, Aug 09 '22 at 22:57

my ubuntu 16.04 wont update

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