{"id":9656,"date":"2017-10-17T21:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:23:53","slug":"updating-ubuntu-17-04-to-17-10-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/17\/updating-ubuntu-17-04-to-17-10-the-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10 the easy way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go to Software and Updates (in your control panel or system area, depending on your flavor). Go to the tap for &#8220;updates&#8221; and set the &#8220;notify me of a new Ubuntu version&#8221; to &#8220;For any new version.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>(See picture above.)<\/p>\n<p>Then, in either a terminal or in the box you get when you hit Alt-F4, type the following and hit enter:<\/p>\n<p><code>update-manager -cd<\/code><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9658\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/17\/updating-ubuntu-17-04-to-17-10-the-easy-way\/screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?fit=829%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"829,155\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot at 2017-10-17 20-59-40\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?fit=300%2C56&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?fit=604%2C113&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?resize=604%2C113\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"113\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?w=829&amp;ssl=1 829w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?resize=500%2C93&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?resize=300%2C56&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?resize=768%2C144&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?resize=650%2C122&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-59-40.png?resize=668%2C125&amp;ssl=1 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If things don&#8217;t work fine, try <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/how-to-recover-from-a-failed-linux-upgrade\/\">THIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to Software and Updates (in your control panel or system area, depending on your flavor). Go to the tap for &#8220;updates&#8221; and set the &#8220;notify me of a new Ubuntu version&#8221; to &#8220;For any new version.&#8221; (See picture above.) Then, in either a terminal or in the box you get when you hit Alt-F4, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/17\/updating-ubuntu-17-04-to-17-10-the-easy-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Updating Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10 the easy way<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5023],"tags":[1105,5020,1107],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-at-2017-10-17-20-58-32.png?fit=908%2C506&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2vK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}