[lubuntu-users] how to update 14.04 to 16.04 Lubuntu?

[Walter Lapchynski]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 09:12:41AM -0700, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 11/9/18 10:45 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:23:27AM -0500, Gary Knott wrote:

> > > I don't get any offer from the update manager to update to 16.04
> > > (i used to, but not now)   

LTS releases will not usually give you a new update notification until
the first point release, but that was long ago for 16.04. It may be that
you don't have it set up appropriately. In Preferences » Software &
Updates, go to the Updates tab and look at the bottom. What does it say
for "Notify me of a new Ubuntu Version?" If you have it set to "Never,"
that's your problem. If you have it set to anything else and you're not
getting updates, that deserves some further investigation. It should be
consistent with the value of "Prompt" in
/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.

> > > How do I update to Lubuntu
> > > 16.04?  (not do an overwrite install, but do an update.)

`do-release-upgrade` should do it or System Tools » Software Updater.

> > Why not 18.04?
> My past experience says it only let's you go from one LTS release to the
> very next-higher LTS release.  If you want to go to the next one, you have
> to do another upgrade.

Actually, I think you're right about. Seems silly in one sense but
sometimes there are changes that require the stepwise fashion.

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