There are several ways to upgrade from one Ubuntu release to another. This section gives an overview of the recommended upgrade method.
The recommended way to upgrade a Server Edition installation is to use the do-release-upgrade utility. Part of the update-manager-core package, it does not have any graphical dependencies and is installed by default.
Debian based systems can also be upgraded by using apt-get dist-upgrade. However, using do-release-upgrade is recommended because it has the ability to handle system configuration changes sometimes needed between releases.
To upgrade to a newer release, from a terminal prompt enter:
do-release-upgrade
It is also possible to use do-release-upgrade to upgrade to a development version of Ubuntu. To accomplish this use the -d switch:
do-release-upgrade -d
![[Warning]](../../libs/admon/warning.png)
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Upgrading to a development release is not recommended for production environments. |
