Upgrade to 17.04 gnome-flashback issue

[Liam Proven]

On 29 October 2017 at 16:48, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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]

I defer.

/Nearly/ obsolete. :-)


> 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.

True. I've tried it. It's scary but it works.

But you can't dual-boot that way.

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