How to upgrade Ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10; update Ubuntu 19.04 from terminal. upgrade Ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 command line – update Ubuntu apt-get. Learn how to update Ubuntu 19.04 via command line.
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 19.10 is based on the Linux release series 5.3. It brings various Toolchain Upgrades. Ubuntu 19.10 comes with refreshed state-of-the-art toolchain including new upstream releases of glibc 2.30, OpenJDK 11, rustc 1.37, and updated GCC 8.3, optional GCC 9, Python 3.7.3 as default, ruby 2.5.5, php 7.2.15, perl 5.28.1, golang 1.10.4. There are new improvements on the cross-compilers front as well with POWER and AArch64 toolchain enabled to cross-compile for ARM, S390X and RISCV64 targets.
Upgrading from Ubuntu 19.04
To upgrade on a desktop system:
- Open the “Software & Updates” application.
- Select the 3rd Tab called “Updates”.
- Set the “Notify me of a new Ubuntu version” dropdown menu to “For any new version”.
- Press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -c” (without the quotes) into the command box.
- Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ‘19.10’ is available.
- If not you can also use “/usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk”
- Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.
To upgrade on a server system:
- Install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed.
- Make sure the Prompt line in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades is set to Prompt=normal.
- Launch the upgrade tool with the command do-release-upgrade.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note that the server upgrade will use GNU screen and automatically re-attach in case of dropped connection problems.
There are no offline upgrade options for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Please ensure you have network connectivity to one of the official mirrors or to a locally accessible mirror and follow the instructions above.
Upgrades on i386
Users of the i386 architecture will not be presented with an upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10. Support for i386 as a host architecture is dropped in 19.10.
Updating Ubuntu via Terminal
Firstly update and upgrade your current Ubuntu 19.04 Linux system. To do so, run the following set of commands:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt autoremove
$ sudo apt update
Now configure the release upgrader. Open and edit the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades file and ensure that the Prompt variable is set to normal.
# Default behavior for the release upgrader.
[DEFAULT]
# Default prompting behavior, valid options:
# never - Never check for a new release.
# normal - Check to see if a new release is available. If more than one new release is found, the release upgrader will attempt to upgrade to the release that immediately succeeds the currently-running release.
# lts - Check to see if a new LTS release is available. The upgrader will attempt to upgrade to the first LTS release available after the currently-running one. Note that this option should not be used if the currently-running release is not itself an LTS release, since in that case the upgrader won't be able to determine if a newer release is available.
Prompt=normal
Remember to save the file.
Check for the available Ubuntu update by the following command:
$ sudo do-release-upgrade -c
Now start the Ubuntu 19.10 upgrade process by executing the following command:
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
When the Ubuntu upgrade finishes, please remember to reboot the system.
Note: If you want to upgrade before release day, run the following command:
$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Happy upgrading.