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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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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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…
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Why does `do-release-upgrade` skip a version?
I answered this question about do-release-upgrade not allowing an upgrade of 14.10 to 15.04 only to 15.10, I assumed it was due to 15.04 being end of life.
A user (@xangua ) posted that it was not possible to skip a release with do-release-upgrade,…
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Problem to upgrade from Ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04
I get this problem when i am trying to upgrade my Ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04.
[tor apr 23 18:45:46] Jonathan@Whats next?:~$ sudo apt install update-manager-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...…
Jonte YH
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What does `--frontend` do in `do-release-upgrade` and where can I find the list of possible values?
While checking the manual for do-release-upgrade, I found out that it has a --frontend argument that can be passed to the command along with a value. However, the manpage doesn't explain what the argument exactly does, or what are the available…
Dan
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"/var/run/utmp: No such file or directory" when using do-release-upgrade
Linux newbie here. I recently ordered my first (unmanaged) VPS running Ubuntu 10.04. I successfully managed to upgrade to 12.04 via SSH connection (PuTTY) but have some trouble going to 12.10 release now. This is exactly what I did:
sudo apt-get…
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How to revert a do-release-upgrade?
I can update my Ubuntu to the new LTS version. As you can think, its not a highly important server since I run 13.10 (not a LTS version). Anyway - I actually want to upgrade my server, but would like to be able to revert this upgrade.
I would be…
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What is a devel-release?
There are a lot of people that have problems upgrading to 13.04... now every time they are told to put this in the Terminal: sudo do-release-upgrade -d. Now I've been wondering what the -d stands for.
In the man pages they speak of a devel release.…
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"Press X to destroy or R to resurrect" during system upgrade
I am trying to do Ubuntu desktop 12 upgrade to Ubuntu 14 and it is giving me this error at the end :
Command terminated with exit status 1
Then
press x to destroy or r to resurrect
what should I do? should I press X or R?
Migwi Mwangi
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Can't upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 because "reboot required" error never goes away (even after a reboot)
I can't upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 because it complains that a reboot is needed. But after rebooting, the same error message is displayed again.
$ cat…
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resume do-release-upgrade after screen terminated
I was just viewing a diff of configs changed by me and the maintainer's version when I did something wrong with my keyboard because following error occured:
Configuration file '/etc/bind/named.conf.options'
==> File on system created by you or by a…
cly
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Can't do a release upgrade from 14.04: It was not possible to authenticate some packages
Trying to do a release upgrade on Ubuntu 14.04 with:
do-release-upgrade
I get 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…
user5950
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Partially Successful Upgrade From 20.04 To 20.10
Introduction:
Back in March, I bought a new Dell XPS 13 that came with Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed. Since version 20.10 had already been released, I immediately tried to upgrade it. That upgrade partially but not entirely succeeded. The way that I…
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how to solve "No module named 'distro_info'" on updating
I am trying to update my ubuntu 18.04, but as I try to run sudo do-release-upgrade I get the following error:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [1.554 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1.210…
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I'm in the current development version after doing "do-release-upgrade -d", why?
I don't know how, but I was upgrading from ubuntu 11.10 using:
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Then after the upgrade and a reboot, I did:
sudo lsb_release -a
and got:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:
Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu Trusty Tahr…
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