upgrading 14.04 LAMP server to 16.04

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:44:49 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an easy way to upgrade 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS *without*
> clobbering php and mysql in the upgrade? The standard upgrade will
> upgrade php5.x to php7 and we definitely don't want that.

If you want a *long term* stable LAMP server, you really should be looking at 
CentOS, not Ubuntu.

> 
> thanks,

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