[xubuntu-users] Upgrading xubuntu 22.04 to 24.04

[David Sumbler]

 On 5/27/24 01:02, David Sumbler wrote:
 
> 
> I have installed xubuntu 24.04 with no problems on my desktop
> computer.  But when I tried to install it on my laptop, the installer
> crashed every time.  I have tried 2 different USB drives, and
> different USB sockets on the laptop.  On each attempt the crash
> happens at a different stage, and when I try starting the installer
> from the command line, the error messages are different.  I have
> never had this problem when installing any other OS or version.
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> So instead I installed 22.04, which caused no problems at all.  The
> idea was then to upgrade that to 24.04.
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> https://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/24.04/upgrading suggests that this
> should be possible.  If I change the settings in "Software and
> Updates" to allow all releases it says I can upgrade to 23.10.  But
> if I ask only for LTS releases, it says there is nothing available.
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> So - can 22.04 be upgraded to 24.04, or can't it?

Thank you to the several people who have suggested possible solutions,
and to those who have taken the discussion further.

There does seem to be a lot of confusion about what is required by
xubuntu, what is possible and what is not.

In brief, though, I find that none of the suggestions for upgrading to
24.04 worked for me (either from 22.04 or from 23.10), despite the fact
that one or two people have apparently managed to do it.

Also, there was a suggestion that my original problem - that I couldn't
install a fresh 24.04 on my laptop, because the installer keeps
crashing - might be solved by having a larger EFI partition than the
½Gb that my laptop had.  That sounded promising, in view of the fact
that 24.04 installed easily on my desktop machine, which has a 7.5Gb
EFI partition.  So I used gparted to resize and move all the partitions
on my laptop and give it a 4Gb EFI partition.  And guess what: the
24.04 installer still crashes at random stages, and it is impossible to
complete the installation.

Finally I have resorted to installing xubuntu 23.10 on the laptop, and
will upgrade it to 24.04 when that upgrade becomes available.

Thanks once again for all the help.
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