upgrading to 20.04

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:25:09 +0100, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 21:15, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>>
>> On 25/04/2020 18:41, stan wrote:
>> > I tried to upgrade a freshly installed 18.04 instance to 20.04, and it
>> > appears that that option is not yet supported. Is this correct?
>>
>> I long ago stopped doing major releases as upgrades. I always wipe and
>> install.
>
>I almost always upgrade, it is a matter of personal preference.
>

Question:
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If I have installed the mate-desktop will an Ubuntu upgrade from 18.04
LTS also bring along the mate-desktop or is it not touched by the
upgrade?

After all I have set the login to be to mate desktop and I have
configured it to run as a headless server without suspending due to
the lid being closed etc. I connect via SSH and VNC.

Or am I better off taring up my home dir to an external drive and then
wipe and install from scratch?

Are system installed files in ~/ compatible between 18.04 and 20.04?


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden