Upgrade to 17.04 gnome-flashback issue

[Colin Law]

On 29 October 2017 at 15:38, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why update the current supported LTS release to an obsolete unsupported release?

17.04 is actually supported till Jan 2018 [1]

>
> If you have a separate /home partition, as you should, then you'd be
> better off doing a clean reinstall with Maté.

It is not necessary to have a separate home partition to re-install
without overwriting /home. On the what to do dialog when installing,
select Something Else, select the existing '/' partition and tell it
to use it as '/' and *not* to reformat. Then it will install the new
OS there but leave /home as it is.  Needless to say you should back
everything important up before doing that.

Colin

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases