I'm Planning to upgrade to 14.04 . so what are the precautions i need to do . and is there a way to go back if things goes bad . i would appreciate if some one tells me a check list to follow to do this upgrade successfully
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What are the different ways I can use to upgrade Ubuntu from one release to another?
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My Ubuntu has a problem with the Ubuntu Software Center and I can't solve it, but I'd like to try the new version of Ubuntu, 13.10.  I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, can I upgrade to 13.10 how can I do that? Its not dublicate :)
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I am running the upgrade(12.10 to 13.04) through terminal and it keeps getting stuck at this:  Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock   What do I do? I have root access. I have no idea what else to try other than a clean install.  Checking package manager Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree           Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done   Calculating the changes Calculating the changes  Do you want to start the upgrade?   3 packages are going to be removed. 155 new packages are going to be  installed. 1204 packages are going to be upgraded.   You have to download a total of 595 M. This download will take about  1 hour 15 minutes with a 1Mbit DSL connection and about 23 hours with  a 56k modem.   Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the  download has finished, the process cannot be canceled.    Continue [yN]  Details [d]y  Fetching  Could not download the upgrades   The upgrade has aborted. Please check your Internet connection or  installation media and try again. All files downloaded so far have  been kept.   Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock    Restoring original system state  Aborting Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree           Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done  root@chaitanya-XPS-Ubuntu:~#
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After upgrading from 14.04 to 14.10 my computer cannot boot anymore, it is stuck at the logo screen (with animated dots).  By displaying the boot process, I see that it is stuck at "Stopping log initial device creation". When I press Ctrl+Alt+F2, only a flickering dash appears, and I can't even log in.    Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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I'm in the middle of installing 13.10 and the Ubuntu page I was following on how to install from a USB stick says nothing about these two choices (on the Installation type screen):     1) Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security (you will choose a security key in the next step).      2) Use LVM with the new Ubuntu installation (this will set up Logical Volume Management. It allows taking snapshots and easier partition resizing)   I'm a writer using the computer for mostly writing ebooks but I also do all the things most people do: buy stuff online, online banking etc. I want my information to be safe but I don't want to overburden my system with security stuff either. And I've read a lot of the similarly themed questions here on the forum but they've all been about stuff more technical than I'm concerned about.   Can somebody please just tell me in real layman's terms about the implications of these two choices? Thank you.
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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 have been doing so many sudo apt-get update/(dist-)upgrade since yesterday and  something happend - so that I am confused now whether I am using still beta or the stable version.   How do I figure that out?
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I was just wondering since i have the 12.04 lts ubuntu edition if it's possible to upgrade it to 13.04 or even 14.04 after it gets released without losing any of my files and installed apps?  That's actually the main reason i chose the LTS version because i didn't know if i had to re-install all my apps every time a new ubuntu version gets released.
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I'm downloading the update right now and I would like to know if any of my files or app gets deleted after this update... I'm sure many people here already installed the update so what can you say?
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I am using Ubuntu 14.04. How to install and configure the latest version of  on Ubuntu.  I would like to know how to install it from PPA and from source.
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I have Ubuntu13.04 on my laptop. I have to upgrade it to the next release or else I would install a fresh release after deleting my current system.  I have already installed and configured my current system a lot and I can't take the burden of doing it all over again if I install the next release. Now I would like to know that what all back-ups are required to be taken beforehand so that I would recover all my files/installations/configurations etc. In other words I should have everything on my new system (simply by restoring from back-ups) that I possess currently.  My current system has /, /boot, /home &amp; swap partitions which were created by me when I had freshly installed the O.S.
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I am trying to install current stable version 0.12.1, but it only installs 0.9.9. Any chance to install latest version with apt-get install? It seems that 0.9.9 is very old :(
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I am not looking for a workaround or a hack.  I am just confused.  14.04.1 has been released now for a week, and one of my machines which is on 12.04, and another one which is on 14.04 both don't have the upgrade options.  I see there is a 14.04.5 release on august 7th but I am not sure what a candence event is.    It is hard to believe that it is not an issue that is going to be resolved otherwise I would hope this would be posted on the Ubuntu blog.  I cant be the only one on the last LTS waiting for it to update so I can finally go to the latest kernel and properly use my core i7 graphics.
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How can I safely upgrade an Ubuntu installation from one release to another? What should I do before upgrading to ensure it goes smoothly, and is there any clean-up I need to do afterwards?  In particular, do I need to do anything special if I am using packages from PPAs, if I have a graphics card that needs drivers, or if I'm running a custom Linux kernel?  This is a general question , but as example we take Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10
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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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I want to know about different update and upgrade commands as follows:   update upgrade dist-upgrade do-release-upgrade etc.   For new users of Ubuntu and using the command-line, which of these is used and when? In brief, help me to understand the use of the above commands.
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i was stopped by my sister from upgrading Ubuntu, for the reason she explained was that i would have to reinstall all the softwares that I've installed in last 6 months. but i think if that's the case, the upgrade itself includes all softwares that i have installed. so please tell me what's the truth?     please note that i just can't afford mentally to reinstall all apps due to slow INTERNET speed.because it may take 3 to 4 days of constant downloading.   if you are an Indian living in an suburban city,you can understand my situation.   i think the question itself explains everything.still I'll explain everything in detail.i want to upgrade my current Ubuntu 12.10 OS to 13.10(now please don't ask what is 13.10). this option is available from "about this computer" and many other places.the upgrade is of about 700mb to 800 MB.    BTW, i don't know why i think it's a rule here to put some question on questions asked here,however detailed or/and simple it may be.at least that's what i feel after looking at many questions.