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Any compelling reasons to perform a "do-release-upgrade"?

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http://askubuntu.com – I recently performed a "do-release-upgrade" on one of my company's development machines to go from 11.04 Ubuntu Server to 11.10. The process actually downgraded a custom PHP installation and I had a heck of a time getting the dependencies right to recompile to the newer version. That said, I'm a little hesitant to perform the upgrade on our production machine. I then got to thinking, I want to keep up to date on software updates and security fixes, but do I really need to upgrade Ubuntu releases? Wikipedia roughly describes a Linux Distribution as a certain kernel combined with a set of softw (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 12/27/2011 – Made popular on 12/27/2011

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[lubuntu] update or upgrade? 16 weeks 3 days ago

So I was on the computer today when it said not all updates where installed and I clicked on partial upgrade and then it popped up as distribution upgrade but what it shows me looks just like just a steam and a kernel upgrade or is it a legit distribution upgrade.

I don't want to upgrade to 13.04 until it's release date

I'm trying to upgrade my 10.04 server using do-release-upgrade, but it keeps saying there is no new version available.

If I change the prompt config in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades to normal, I am able to upgrade to 10.10 though, but I don't want to perform 4 separate upgrades in order to reach the new lts.

When I connect via SSH, I get this:

Code: Welcome to Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

0 packages can be updated. 0 updates are security updates.

New release '13.04' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it. So, apparently, it's encouraging me to upgrade from 13.04 to 13.04

Any idea what is going on?

P.S.

After hearing about some of the features in 12.10, I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu from 12.04 LTS to the newer 12.10.

Upgrade from 11.04 to 12.04 LTS 29 weeks 3 hours ago

My Ubuntu 11.04 installation refuses to perform updates for the past month.

I decided to upgrade to 12.04 LTS. I have a separate partition for /home. How can I upgrade without losing my programs and data?

The update manager does not show anything as possible upgrade.

I'm trying to upgrade our ubuntu server 11.04 to 11.10. I did an apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. Now, im trying to execute do-release upgrade.

I have an Ubuntu server and last week I ran Code: do-release-upgrade and it did the upgrade perfectly. It also did every other upgrade for the last 2 years no problem. When the upgrade finished and it rebooted, I SSH into it and it told me again there is an update. But when I run the command again it tells me there's no upgrade available.

My ubuntu distribution upgrade got corrupted.

New release 'oneiric' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

2222222-desktop:~$ do-release-upgrade Checking for a new ubuntu release No new release found

why does it say there is an upgrade then says it does not find it?

I have been slowly upgrading from 9x to 11.04. I had some issues along the way but nothing google could not help me with.