During the day yesterday we have known the new version of Ubuntu, the well-known Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvac. This version can be installed on new machines, but for those who have an older version of Ubuntu, have to wait.
Many are possibly getting the update message right now, but others will have to wait. To speed up this update process We propose several methods to make the update quick, safe and simple.
The first thing we have to do is create a backup of all our important data. This process is quite dangerous and an internet or power outage could spoil the update. Once we have made the backup, we have to open the terminal.
Now we have two ways to perform the update: either we do it graphically by writing,
sudo apt-get update && update-manager
This will update the operating system and then run the graphical update tool. But it exists the fastest and most effective terminal option (I personally like it better), this process consists of the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && upgrade sudo do-release-upgrade
This will start the operating system update via terminal. As in the graphical way, we have to be attentive to the questions and requests that the update makes us.
If we use an LTS version, no matter how much we execute the above commands, the method of updating to Ubuntu 17.10 will not work. For this to work, we must first go to "Software and Updates", then we go to the "Updates" tab. In it, we change the drop-down option to "any new version", then we press the close button and then we will continue with the previous steps. Now the update process will work.
As you can see, the update process is quite simple and depending on the Internet connection we have, it will be fast. But keep in mind that This update is important to do since the following versions will have Wayland and Gnome, programs that require many libraries and files.
Forget about upgrading directly from Ubuntu 17.04 if you have old graphics. Ubuntu 17.10 with gnome-3.26 and especially with mesa 17.2 (> = mesa 17.1) is no longer compatible with old graphics cards (for the same with Fedora, etc. etc.).
To do this, I would advise that before updating directly, you download a 'live-cd' and test if it works well for you and if not, follow the following steps that I indicate (retain packages mesa and xserver-xorg from Ubuntu 17.04).
#We retain the table package update and xserver-xorg
sudo apt-mark hold libegl1-table
sudo apt-mark hold libgl1-table-dri
sudo apt-mark hold libgl1-table-glx
sudo apt-mark hold libglapi-table
sudo apt-mark hold libgles2-table
sudo apt-mark hold libglu1-table
sudo apt-mark hold libtxc-dxtn-s2tc
sudo apt-mark hold libwayland-egl1-table
sudo apt-mark hold table-utils
sudo apt-mark hold table-va-drivers
sudo apt-mark hold table-vdpau-drivers
sudo apt-mark hold xorg
sudo apt-mark hold xorg-docs-core
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-input-libinput
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-legacy
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-all
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-intel
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-qxl
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-vesa
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-vmware
#The system is updated
sudo apt-get update && upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade
The amount of software it offers you is poor, in 16.04 the app options were very extensive. On the other hand, I must keep updating that it corresponds to TLS… I got a little lost!
I have 17.04 and the update to 17.10 did not work, although I tried both methods.
I could see that if the "get" is no longer used
What if I have Ubuntu 9.04?