Can't upgrade Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.3 to 17.04

Question

I cannot upgrade Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.3 to 17.04. I have switched the setting in Software & Updates to Notify me of a new Ubuntu version: For any new version, I also tried editing /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and verified that Prompt=normal was indeed set.

I run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

then

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

but it always returns:

sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Upgrades to the development release are only 
available from the latest supported release.

This is not a duplicate of the previous question; the path for Ubuntu GNOME is 16.04.3 to 17.04. There is no 16.10 release of Ubuntu GNOME, so I'm not skipping any release versions.

Solution

do sudo update-manager -c in order to update from 16.04 to 17.04

Comments

[Pilot6]

You can't upgrade from 16.04 to 17.04, and it is a bad idea to upgrade an LTS to a non-LTS release. It makes no sense.

[George Udosen]

I believe the path aught to be 16.04 --> 16.10 --> 17.04, but note non-lts versions

[Pilot6]

16.10 is EOL, so there is no path.

[cmay]

The path is not true for Ubuntu Gnome. You must go 16.04.3 to 17.04. There is no 16.10 release of Ubuntu Gnome.

[Terrance]

wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 did indeed exist.

[Tooniis]

@Pilot6 why updating from LTS to non-LTS is a bad idea and makes no sense?

[Pilot6]

What is the reason to do that? There is no value in it.

[Pilot6]

This is a wrong answer.

[Camden]

no it is not a worng answer I just updated from 16.04 to 17.04 yesterday!

[Camden]

Its my pleasure to help you

[dontbyteme]

Also worked for me! Updated from 16.04 LTS to 17.04. Thanks

[jharrell]

You may have to reboot it a few times but it will grab the upgrade in the end. However you are jumping on with a development distribution - so don't do this to your production installs.