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unable to update ubuntu 16.04 machine. apt-get update apt-get upgrade failing. changed sources.list to xenial please advise

Posted on October 2, 2017

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Hello,

I would recommend following the steps here on how to upgrade your Ubuntu distribution:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-18-04

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

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