Comments on: How to Upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS

By: geek

geek — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:12:11 +0000

This guide was incredibly helpful! I’ve been eyeing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ever since its release, and I was a bit unsure about how to properly upgrade from 22.04 for testing. The steps were clear and easy to follow, especially the backup process—those rsync and tar commands were lifesavers for ensuring I didn’t lose anything important.

Thanks to this article, I felt confident about upgrading my system and now I’m running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS without any issues.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:41:15 +0000

In reply to faizan. @Faizan, If you have taken a backup using rsync or tar, you can use the following command to restore it:

rsync -av --progress /path/to/external/drive/username /home/
OR
tar -xvzf /path/to/external/drive/backup_home.tar.gz -C /

By: faizan

faizan — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:38:29 +0000

After upgrading to version Ubuntu 24.04, how do I copy my backup files to the new OS?

By: Dwiva

Dwiva — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:01:55 +0000

In reply to greek. I got this exact same problem too. I found a workaround for this. We need to use an app called Synaptic to remove all packages that are considered unofficial. Steps:

Install synaptic with "sudo apt-get install synaptic".
Open synaptic app and find the list of obsolete packages by clicking on the “Status” button and selecting “Installed (local or obsolete)”.
Select all of the obsolete packages and mark them for removal, then click on the Apply button. (Note: Your important apps may listed as obsolete packages, so make sure to back up the app data if possible. You may also need to keep the list by using a screenshot, so you can install them back later after upgrade).
Do the upgrade process again by pressing Alt+F2 type "update-manager -c -d" then click enter.

By: greek

greek — Mon, 11 May 2020 21:08:53 +0000

Hi, I’m facing an error in ubuntu 18.04.

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

This was likely caused by:
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
Please use the tool ‘ppa-purge’ from the ppa-purge
package to remove the software from a Launchpad PPA and
try the upgrade again.

If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the
command ‘ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core’ in a terminal. If
you want to investigate this yourself the log files in
‘/var/log/dist-upgrade’ will contain details about the upgrade.
Specifically, look at ‘main.log’ and ‘apt.log’.

Restoring the original system state

Aborting
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done