I installed 12.04 on an ancient Toshiba laptop several years ago, and it worked quite well.  One of my acquaintances recommended that I upgrade to 14.04.  This I did, but only with great difficulty, and this installation has been very buggy the entire time I've used it. Recently it failed entirely and eventually I gave up on trying to fix it and reinstalled 12.04, which works just fine.  I realize that this is an obsolete installation and will reach its end of life in April,  but since it works for me, is there any compelling reason that I should try upgrading again?  Jim
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What different Ubuntu derivatives are there? And what is special with them?
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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 right now. If I use the command sudo apt-get dist-upgrade will that upgrade my Ubuntu to 12.10? Does that mean I won't be using the LTS version after that? I don't want to use Ubuntu 12.10 because I've already tried it and it's very heavy for my netbook.
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I am currently using Ubuntu 10.04. I know there is a 10.10 release, but can I upgrade directly to 11.04? Could you walk me through the steps please?
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I have a laptop with Ubuntu 17.04 desktop installed. And I noticed that Ubuntu has just announced their new version (17.10). However, when I'm trying to open update-manager, it just tells me that I have the newest version.  Also, when I type the sudo do-release-upgrade command on the terminal, it tells me the same thing (No new release found.)  Is there any reasons for that, and what can I do? or should I just wait for that version, to get to the server?
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I'm on an old Ubuntu version (Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS Server) which isn't really supported any more. So the automatic updates don't work. I have ISPConfig installed to manage a few web sites.  What's the best course of action? I'd like to upgrade to something current, but I can't figure out how to go about doing this, given that the apt-get scripts don't really work any longer.
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I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS about 2 weeks ago. A week later a newer LTS came out. Now I know that I will get to upgrade in June but I don't know if I should upgrade or not. Please give me suggestions.
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I'm pretty new to running linux, but I know that 19.04 was released today and I wanted to upgrade from my current 18.10. However, when I follow the release notes here:  I get the message "The software on this computer is up to date". I made sure that my update settings are set to "any new version" and "normal" in the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades file.   What am I doing wrong?  Thanks for the help!  Side note: I had to disable this PPA:  because it would cause errors in apt updating. Do I need to re-add it? If so how do I do so without it giving me an error?  Edit: I have followed the procedure recommended in the documentation which is identical to the suggested duplicate, but I am not given the option to upgrade. I have not yet tried the   do-release-upgrade -d    option as I don't want to upgrade to the developer version.
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As you can see in the image above, I tried to update to 19.10 and it says that   No new release found   I checked the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades to see if the Prompt is LTS but it is still normal.  What would be your advice?  UPDATE: I already updated the system to 19.10. Thank you very much for the advices.
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I am looking at using  , but I am not sure how easy it is to update a distribution when a new version comes out.  Also, can I use drush to do it, or do I have to manually download and unpack the distribution?
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Has anyone installed 12.04 on the Asus EP121, and if so, what works? Of all things, the touch screen would be the most important. Has anyone had any luck with it?
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I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Today when I logged into my computer I got an update alert saying that I could upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The other options were not now or do not upgrade. If I chose to upgrade will it delete my /home directories and the installed software under /opt and /usr/local ?
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Does anyone know the (specific) reasons that it is recommended that old LTS server users wait until the point release to upgrade?  Is it just a matter of bug fixes and waiting for improved stability for production servers, or is there something more fundamental than that?
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I just formatted my laptop and got rid of Windows 7. Yay ;-)  Either way, Wine is version 1.3.28 here, and I need it to update (there are some bugfixes) for my game so I need a more recent version. This is the version I got from the Ubuntu software manager. How do I get a more recent version or Wine version 1.4?  I've already added the repo into my repository, but still no updates.  Thanks in advance.
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I am trying to upgrade to a new Ubuntu version but the update manager does not recognize an update. Why not?
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Not a problem, but have been seeing questions recently of people not being offered upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04.  I thought these upgrades were offered back in June.  I upgraded to 20.04 from 19.10 and this was offered back in May.  Imagine that different versions paths have different schedules, but google does not help explaining(that I found).  Does someone know the schedules?
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I want to use do-release-upgrade to upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04, but I can't do that do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release There is no development version of an LTS available.  It seems that  is used, and it still points to 18.04. Do you know when (or how?) can I upgrade to 20.04?
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I was attempting to update my 11.10 install to 12.04beta. During the install step, I accidentally lost power to my laptop (the power cable came unplugged) and it shut down. Whenever I go to boot now, I can select my install via Grub and it loads up to where the sign-in should happen, but I get a display that looks like what you see as soon as you shut down. It looks like it locks after checking for the battery.   Is there anyway, with or without Live media, to restore my machine's install/update to 12.04 but still keep my settings/applications/files?