Upgrade Ubuntu – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:23:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Upgrade Ubuntu – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Updating Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10 the easy way https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/17/updating-ubuntu-17-04-to-17-10-the-easy-way/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/17/updating-ubuntu-17-04-to-17-10-the-easy-way/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:01:23 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9656 Continue reading Updating Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10 the easy way →]]> Go to Software and Updates (in your control panel or system area, depending on your flavor). Go to the tap for “updates” and set the “notify me of a new Ubuntu version” to “For any new version.”

(See picture above.)

Then, in either a terminal or in the box you get when you hit Alt-F4, type the following and hit enter:

update-manager -cd

You might get something that looks like this, and you can hit the upgrade button and follow instructions. Good luck. Have a backup. Should work fine.

If things don’t work fine, try THIS.

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