Installed Ubuntu via command line (only LTS version) .
To get the last version of the former distribution :
Install new LTS :
During the process, sometimes asked whether to leave old config files, manually modified. All ways leave the old files.
After the installation :
Results,
positive :
The new installed Snap thunderbird took over former configurations (e-mail addresses, ...)
minidlna complete took over
former fstab settings complete took over
a.s.o. for further manually modified configuration files
PATH to yt-dlp (home) and yt-dlp itself took over
firefox : all bookmarks, configurations took over (but all ways I make a backup of the bookmarks)
negative :
(minor) sh-files, object opened via double click for gedit (text-editor) must be set
In former LTS versions, after "do-release-upgrade", I had to install the half of my applications, because no took over.
But now it is obviously significantly improved, well done !
To get the last version of the former distribution :
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install new LTS :
Code:
sudo do-release-upgrade
During the process, sometimes asked whether to leave old config files, manually modified. All ways leave the old files.
After the installation :
Code:
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
Results,
positive :
The new installed Snap thunderbird took over former configurations (e-mail addresses, ...)
minidlna complete took over
former fstab settings complete took over
a.s.o. for further manually modified configuration files
PATH to yt-dlp (home) and yt-dlp itself took over
firefox : all bookmarks, configurations took over (but all ways I make a backup of the bookmarks)
negative :
(minor) sh-files, object opened via double click for gedit (text-editor) must be set
In former LTS versions, after "do-release-upgrade", I had to install the half of my applications, because no took over.
But now it is obviously significantly improved, well done !