Ubuntu server holding back on me

[Liam Proven]

On 22 September 2017 at 13:32, Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net> wrote:
> I think an additional source of confusion is that upgrading debian, a
> normal way to upgrade to a later 'stable' (equiv. to LTS) is to change
> repos in /etc/apt, and do 'apt-get dist-upgrade'... while this
> operation was always fairly functional and reliable to upgrade Debian
> servers, I had little, if any success using it in Ubuntu
> (do_release_upgrade works bettter.) It is unexpected and confusing
> that Debian and Ubuntu are different in that way, since they are so
> close otherwise.

Not really, no.

Firstly, note that the bit about editing files in /etc/apt is very
important. If you don't do that, you are _not_ going to get a new OS
release.

Secondly, Ubuntu is not Debian. They are not interchangeable,
equivalent, miscible or anything. Yes, one is derived from the other.
But you and I are derived from monkeys; that doesn't make us monkeys.
Monkeys do not have issues with upgrading software.

Lucky monkeys. :-)

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