One more question

When Mate 16.10 is released on 10-13 What should I use?
Software Boutique…Software Updater…or Software updates ?
to get the update…

What version are you currently using?

I always use a terminal, to be honest.

sudo apt-get update
(this command updates all of your software sources)

sudo apt-get upgrade
(this command upgrades all installed packages)

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
(this command also upgrades all installed packages. But, in addition, it uses “smart” conflict resolution and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary)

If you are on an older version than a prerelease of 16.10 (e.g. the current LTS) then you will need to run sudo do-release-upgrade to upgrade to the latest version (preferrably after running the three commands mentioned by stevecook172001).

@maximuscore Based on Ubuntu release cicle the XX.04 are LTS releases the XX.10 are non LTS .

You misunderstood, I should probably made it clearer.
I meant to say that if you are on a version before 16.10 prerelease (beta, or whatever), an example of those earler versions being the current LTS (16.04) …

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But that’s the point. If you are on 16.04 you can’t run sudo do-release-upgrade because that command only updates from one LTS to another. In other words, running sudo do-release-upgrade on a 16.04 installation would update it to 17.04. But, 17.04 does not yet exist.

The restriction of upgrading to LTS only is a config option.
Open software updater, then select the “Updates” tab, then change “Notify me of a new Ubuntu version:” to “For any new version”.
After changing that, for example sudo do-release-upgrade -d will offer an upgrade to the current Yakkety development version instead of showing “No new release found”.

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You beat me to it!..:slight_smile:

I was just checking that out and found this:

Open ‘Software & Updates’
Select the ‘Updates‘ tab
Locate section titled ‘Notify me of a new Ubuntu version‘
In the dropdown menu switch from ‘For long-term support versions’ to ‘For any new version‘

Though I would, perhaps, add the following caveat that it is probably safest, if one has a low risk tolerance, to only update from one LTS to another.

And just for maximum pedantry and clarity, Ubuntu LTS are only the even numbered xx.04s; so 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04. Not every xx.04.

16.04 LTS will update to 18.04 LTS when it’s out.

:wink:

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