[aklug] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu server

You'll probably need to edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set "prompt" to normal, until you get to the LTS version, at which point you should set it to ... lts

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"Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 18:56:51 Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hey guys, for quite a while now I've been running my postfix / courier
> e-mail server on one of those cheap openvz vms from alienlayer. For the
> first time, it occurred to me to check what release they installed, and
> it turns out they were /not/ using an LTS release. Evidently Natty is
> expired, which would explain why there hasn't been any new security
> updates for the last two months. :)
>
> So now I want to upgrade to 12.04 LTS, purely for the sake of getting
> the security updates back, and getting landed on an LTS version. I've
> never done a dist-upgrade before on an Ubuntu box, so I was wondering if
> the Ubuntu vets had any last minute tips / words of warnings for me
> before I took the plunge. (Aside from the customary "back up your
> data".) The Ubuntu site simply says to use the "do-release-upgrade"
> command and follow instructions, but doesn't give any info about what
> that process will be like, or if I'll get to pick the specific version I
> want to upgrade to.
The do-release-upgrade will do the right thing.  Most likely, upgrade you to
the next version, and then you can go from there, upgrading again if need be.
I think you can upgrade from one LTS version to the next, but anything else
you must go one version at a time.
j
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