By jclee8
My google-fu is failing me; how do I upgrade a droplet’s ubuntu distribution? For instance, if I start a 13.04 droplet, how do I upgrade it to a 13.10 droplet when it comes out? Or given current releases, if I had a 12.10 droplet, how would I upgrade it to a 13.04 droplet? I know I have to select the kernel somewhere, but I’m not sure where that is in the process.
If it’s not easy to upgrade a droplet’s distribution version number, I might just stick with 12.04 for now for the long term support; ubuntu’s support window for intermediate releases is fairly narrow.
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when I use do-release-upgrade <br>it says that <br>“no new release found” <br> <br>I’m on 12.04
@panicz.klos: That’s because you’re running an LTS version of Ubuntu which is the latest LTS version at this time. Check out <a href=“http://askubuntu.com/a/336588”>http://askubuntu.com/a/336588</a>.
sudo apt-get update <br>sudo apt-get upgrade <br>sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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