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    From 12.04 to 14.04 ?

    I am running Kubuntu 12.04 on my internet computer and wish to upgrade, BUT ONLY TO 14.04
    Is there a way to make sure it only upgrades to 14.04?
    How?

    Thanks
    Greg
    Greg
    W9WD

    #2
    Oh boy. My friend--just my opinion here--but I would simply download 14.04.x, make a nice fresh DVD/USB live installer, and do it that way. Of course, you'll have to back-up your user data files, and make notes about what apps you have and any special configurations you've done on those apps and your setup (desktop etc.). But--in theory--you should then have a super clean and solid 14.04. (Btw, I'm happily still using 14.04 and always do a fresh install--call it chicken stupidstition, if you wish.)
    An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski

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      #3
      What does

      do-release-upgrade -c

      show you?

      Please Read Me

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        #4
        Now I remember why I never do updates.
        2 times through the wringer and I wind up with no grub and when repaired ubuntu.
        This is maddening.
        Greg
        W9WD

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          #5
          I'll never do another "upgrade" again
          Greg
          W9WD

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            #6
            Originally posted by GregM View Post
            I'll never do another "upgrade" again
            I believe in the fresh install. One must make backups of data anyway, so why bother with an "upgrade" when you can do a fresh install, install your important apps and import your data.
            Win, win, win all the way around.

            BTW, why 14.04 which has an EOL of this year? (IIRC, 14.04 was a 3 year LTS) 16.04 has FOUR more years left on it.
            "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
            – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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              #7
              I have settled on having to do that.
              What a shame they can't make upgrading work right.
              Greg
              W9WD

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                #8
                Originally posted by GregM View Post
                .... What a shame they can't make upgrading work right.
                Probably because no two people have identical hardware in the same condition and configuration and don't install the same software nor configure & run their installation the same way. So, the developers have to target between -1 and + 1 sigma. The rest are hit & miss. Developing a distro is *TOUGH* work. They need all the encouragement they can get. Just consider how marvelous Kubuntu & Neon are. I'm running a 5 year old laptop with Neon, NVidia GT650m, 8GB RAM on an i7 using Btrfs and Neon. After installing WINE & POL, the QtSDK 5.8.0 and converting my Qt apps from 2005-8 developments, I now have the *FIRST* machine that contains ALL the software I've ever run since I started consulting using Tubo Pascal 3.02A in the early 1980s, and many of the games and amusements. (Anyone do aerial combat with gl-117?) (I found two variables that I assigned and never used, and one if test where (flag = true) would never fail )
                "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
                – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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