upgrading to 20.04

[Bret Busby]

On 26/04/2020, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 17:25 +0000, Bret Busby wrote:
>> I am using, as my preferred version (on the computer that I am using
>> to post this message), UbuntuMATE 16.04.x, and, I have not seen any
>> updates for some time.
>>
>> Is 16.04.x LTS, no longer supported, with security upgrades and bug
>> fixes, and therefore, past Use By date?
>
> Regarding https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS support
> ends in a year, "End of Standard Support April 2021".
>
> I don't know what packages your Ubuntu flavour install and my minimalist
> Ubuntu install have in common, probably 'git' is one of those packages.
> I'm updating manually by command line and I remember that git and git-
> man were upgraded this month.
>


And hence I checked my /etc/apt/sources.list file, found it had only
one line in it, copied all of the lines that weren't commented out,
from an installation that has the version name like eon, and replaced
the eon-like word with xenial, ran apt-get update then apt-get
upgrade, and about 470 packages were downloaded and
installed/upgraded.

Now, after I have shutdown 50 Midori standalone windows, the kernel
upgrade can be done, requiring the system reboot, and the system will
be updated.

So, it was worth asking whether 16.04 is still being supported.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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