Akom's Tech Ruminations

If you don't upgrade a non-LTS release (eg: 21.10) to a supported version before End-Of-Life, you will be dealing with a rather awkward user experience.  Here is what happens:

$ do-release-upgrade

Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

Yet if you atempt to install updates, that fails:

$ apt dist-upgrade -y

Err:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish Release
  404 Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1562::18 80]

...

Essentially, apt cache knows about some pending updates, but the actual packages are not longer available.  You can't update them, so you can't upgrade your OS.

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If you don't upgrade a non-LTS release (eg: 21.10) to a supported version before End-Of-Life, you will be dealing with a rather awkward user experience.  Here is what happens:

$ do-release-upgrade

Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

Yet if you atempt to install updates, that fails:

$ apt dist-upgrade -y

Err:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish Release
  404 Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1562::18 80]

...

Essentially, apt cache knows about some pending updates, but the actual packages are not longer available.  You can't update them, so you can't upgrade your OS.

Continue reading "Upgrading a non-LTS Ubuntu installation after EOL"