How do I upgrade Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04?

18.04 upgrade 17.10 tpm

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Ubuntu's own instructions specify how to upgrade from 17.10 on a desktop system:

Press Alt+F2 and type update-manager -c into the command box.

Update Manager should open up and tell you that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is now available. If not you can run /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk

Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

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Bailey Johnston

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Bailey Johnston over 1 year
I was trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 from 17.10, and I used the Ubuntu Software / updates, but it gave an error. Also my laptop has logged me out of sessions/restart from Ubuntu login screen twice.

Is this due to not being on 18.04? Also I have used sudo to add Mint desktop repository as an option.

I see this error as shown in the photo:
```
tpw tpw0: A TPM error (325) occurred stopping the TPM
```
- Bailey Johnston almost 6 years
  
  I only mentioned the resets as its happened twice, and i don't want my pc to reset in the middle of updating.
- ejjl almost 6 years
  
  Do you mean to upgrade from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04? Please post the error message(s) you receive. How else can we help you?
- jones0610 almost 6 years
  
  Welcome to the forum. Please edit your question, adding the error message(s) you are getting and someone should be able to help you.
- Thomas Ward almost 6 years
  
  There is no 18.10. You also mean 17.10, not 17.1.
- Bailey Johnston almost 6 years
  
  it kept giving me the error loading repositoriies message, but it worked after 3 refreshes (closing/reopening the update center. sorry about that if this question was a duplicate
- Bailey Johnston almost 6 years
  
  would of made a new question, but it's the topic of update still. Also these random restarts started today, and I've had no issue with Ubuntu since I installed it from a live CD some months ago, my laptop has over 250 Gigs free on the Linux partition, and is not even a year old. I can still access grub/duelboot.
- Bailey Johnston almost 6 years
  
  I got it to update, by remember those random resets i mentioned? Well, during these resets its as though I logged out as it doesn't reset to grub, just the login screen. during the unpacking part of the upgrade, my full~Battery Laptop did one of these resets. After the during-update reset It was locked in the login, I typed my password and it would load them send me back to the select a user screen. I turned my pc off and on, only to find the screen was flashing, and a big screen of terminal code. I turned my computer off for an hour, then on again and got same result. Flashing and all.
- Bailey Johnston almost 6 years
  
  My screen shot will not post
- Guy Cohen over 3 years
  
  look here: linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/upgrade-ubuntu-16-10-17-04-to-ubuntu-18‌-04
Alex Smirnoff almost 5 years

Not true. Open your /etc/apt/sources.list and change [countryname].archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com, then change security.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com, then run sudo apt update, it will work. So will the upgrade to 18.
pete_l almost 5 years

I have done some further work on this. I was able to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file of my Ubuntu 17.10 installation and change all instances of "artful" to "bionic".
pete_l almost 5 years

(ooops, hit RETURN too soon) ... Then I could perform a "apt full-upgrade" and successfully brought my Ubuntu 17.10 VM up to 18.04. Caveat: I initially tried just performing an "apt upgrade". That appeared successful. However when I rebooted the VM, it bricked itself. I still consider the "full-upgrade" method to be extremely brittle. One success does not imply that a different configuration would stand any chance of success