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Upgraded to 14.10 but still 14.04.2

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I wanted to upgrade my Ubuntu 14.04.2 to Ubuntu 15.10. I learned I first had to upgrade to 14.10 then to 15.04 and then finally to 15.10. In terminal I entered:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

About 315 MB data was downloaded and text went on scrolling in the terminal window. At last the process wound up. I restarted system and ran in terminal:

lsb_release -a

and It gave the output:

LSB Version:    core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-ia32:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-ia32:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-ia32:security-4.1-noarch

Distributor ID: Ubuntu             

Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.2

etc... I was shocked that it is not upgraded what should I do now to upgrade and what went wrong with me? Thanks!

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answered 1 Year ago tocklftime · Accepted Answer

First, 14.10 is beyond end of life and so it is going to be more difficult.

Second "dist-upgrade" does NOT upgrade ubuntu. (This is a fairly common misunderstanding, perhaps the option "dist-upgrade" is a bit misleading, perhaps dist-sync or some such would have been better).

From the man page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/vivid/man8/apt-get.8.html

dist-upgrade

       dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,

       also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions

       of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and

       it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the

       expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade

       command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file

       contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package

       files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding

       the general settings for individual packages.

You upgrade by running update manager

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

And finally, it is going to take longer and be more error prone to upgrade this way. A fresh install is faster, more reliable, and will preserve your data in /home as long as you do not format the partition with /home on it.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuReinstallation

Since Hardy it is possible to reinstall Ubuntu without losing the
content of the /home folder (the folder that contains program
settings, internet bookmarks, emails and all your documents, music,
videos and other user files). This can be done even if /home is not on
a separate partition (which is the case by default if you did not
manually separate it when installing Ubuntu originally). This tutorial
can also be used to upgrade Ubuntu (eg 11.04 -> 12.04 from a 12.04
live-CD).

The other unspoken advantage of a fresh install is that you have the opportunity to test the new version of Ubuntu on your hardware before you upgrade. It is frustrating to upgrade via update manager and then discover you have a hardware problem , can leave you stuck re-installing and updating the old version.

And last, before you upgrade, upgrades can always fail, so back up your data first.