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How to upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10

Ahsan MahmoodSeptember 6, 20172 min read

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How to upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10
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Overview

Ubuntu is giving version updates regularly. It's latest stable and Long term Support Version is 16.04. New versions of Ubuntu carries a lot of different new features that helps and ease the use of Operating system making it more efficiently. This guide will tell you how to upgrade distribution version of Ubuntu.

Let's get started with upgrading Ubuntu version from 16.04 to 16.10.

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Go to settings > Software & Updates > Updates tab > Set Notify me of a new ubuntu version to For any new version. It will update for any new version regardless of Stability.

Ubuntu Software & Updates window on the Updates tab, with notification of a new Ubuntu version set to For any new version

Key steps and notes

Open Terminal > Type "sudo do-release-upgrade"

Terminal fetching yakkety package lists and calculating the changes for the upgrade

Terminal will start updating to up version. Follow the screen instructions.

Terminal upgrade summary: 9 packages to remove, 304 new, 1959 to upgrade and 1,866 MB to download

Final notes

Ubuntu will start downloading data packages for updated Versions. It'll take around 1 to 2 hours for complete setup of version 16.10.

See Also: Install Wine 1.8 on ubuntu.

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