How do I upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04?
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I want to upgrade my Ubuntu version to 18.04. How do I do that?
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The first thing that you will want to do is ensure that your current distribution is fully updated by running:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Ubuntu has made a simple way of upgrading your distribution that works much the same as using a script to update. You will want to start with installing a specific package, then you can run the Ubuntu upgrade process.
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
If you are upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, you might receive an error stating No new release found. In this case you have a few options.
- Wait for the update to be fully available (recommended).
- Force the upgrade by running:
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
- You can upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10, then try to upgrade to 18.04