How to Upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?

Hi Developer,

In this post, we will learn upgrade ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 command line. I would like to show you how to upgrade ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 using terminal. I would like to show you how to upgrade ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. We will look at an example of ubuntu upgrade 18.04 to 20.04. Here, Create a basic example of upgrade ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 command line.

If you want to upgrade ubuntu 18.04 to ubuntu 20.04 using terminal command then i will give you list of commands that will help you to upgrade ubuntu 20.04 from ubuntu 18.04. so, let's see the simple commands to help you to upgrade your ubuntu server. you can run this commands with your digitalocean ubuntu server as well.

Step 1: Upgrade Current Installed Packages

Here, we will run following two commands to upgrade apt packages. so, run following commands.

Using following command to update the package list:

sudo apt update

Next, upgrade installed packages to their latest available versions from apt get:

sudo apt upgrade

Step 2: Initiate Ubuntu Upgrade

Now, you need to run following command to dist-upgrade, so run the below command:

sudo apt dist-upgrade

Step 3: Run do-release-upgrade Command

Now, we are ready to upgrade our ubuntu version. you just run do-release-upgrade command to upgrade ubuntu, it will take long process to update all version. it will also ask you some questions about current installed software as well.

So, run following command to install new ubuntu version.

sudo do-release-upgrade

Now, it will check updates and it will take 15min to 30min upgrade time. Also it will ask you some questions.

I hope it can help you...