Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on new droplet

Posted on April 13, 2018

Hello,

I would like to install a new Droplet with the coming release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which is due to next 18 March 2018. What should I install ? The current Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and on next week I do an upgrade of the server? How to make a safe upgrade of a version?

Thanks, Vincent.

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Ryan Quinn

April 13, 2018

While you can upgrade from 16.04 I would recommend creating an Ubuntu 17.10 droplet and then you can upgrade immediately to the 18.04 beta if you’d like with the following commands:

sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt install update-manager-core;
sudo do-release-upgrade;

Defacta

April 14, 2018

It did not work from the 17.10 version but the upgrade is working from the 16.04.4LTS version. I followed this tutorial. https://websiteforstudents.com/upgrade-ubuntu-16-04-lts-to-ubuntu-18-04-lts-beta-server/ Cheers ;)

root@myserver-london-01:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic