Trying to upgrade with do-release-upgrade failing

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:29:24 +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
>I'm trying to upgrade this now, 
>
>cat  /proc/version
>Linux version 3.0.0-12-generic (buildd at crested) (gcc version 4.6.1
>(Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC
>2011

Hi,

you could run 'lsb_release' to provide information about your Ubuntu
release.

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial

The content of /proc/version isn't helpful.

>but do-release-upgrade fails and I was curious what the easiest way is
>to put in 18 or so as I think this only wants to upgrade to 12.04
>anyway.

You should provide more information. How did you run
do-release-upgrade. What happened? Quote output etc. ...

However, I suspect that you are on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
End of Live May 9, 2013.

The oldest current releases with standard support is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
https://packages.ubuntu.com/

A "regular" release upgrade isn't possible. You probably could
workaround this issue, but unlikely by using do-release-upgrade.

I didn't read the following link, so I don't know if it's useful at all:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-an-old-unsupported-release

Regards,
Ralf