From 12.04 to 14.04 ?

[GregM]

I am running Kubuntu 12.04 on my internet computer and wish to upgrade, BUT ONLY TO 14.04
Is there a way to make sure it only upgrades to 14.04?
How?

Thanks
Greg

[Qqmike]

Oh boy. My friend--just my opinion here--but I would simply download 14.04.x, make a nice fresh DVD/USB live installer, and do it that way. Of course, you'll have to back-up your user data files, and make notes about what apps you have and any special configurations you've done on those apps and your setup (desktop etc.). But--in theory--you should then have a super clean and solid 14.04. (Btw, I'm happily still using 14.04 and always do a fresh install--call it chicken stupidstition, if you wish.)

[oshunluvr]

What does

do-release-upgrade -c

show you?

[GregM]

Now I remember why I never do updates.
2 times through the wringer and I wind up with no grub and when repaired ubuntu.
This is maddening.

[GregM]

I'll never do another "upgrade" again

[GreyGeek]

I'll never do another "upgrade" again

I believe in the fresh install. One must make backups of data anyway, so why bother with an "upgrade" when you can do a fresh install, install your important apps and import your data.
Win, win, win all the way around.

BTW, why 14.04 which has an EOL of this year? (IIRC, 14.04 was a 3 year LTS) 16.04 has FOUR more years left on it.

[GregM]

I have settled on having to do that.
What a shame they can't make upgrading work right.

[GreyGeek]

.... What a shame they can't make upgrading work right.

Probably because no two people have identical hardware in the same condition and configuration and don't install the same software nor configure & run their installation the same way. So, the developers have to target between -1 and + 1 sigma. The rest are hit & miss. Developing a distro is *TOUGH* work. They need all the encouragement they can get. Just consider how marvelous Kubuntu & Neon are. I'm running a 5 year old laptop with Neon, NVidia GT650m, 8GB RAM on an i7 using Btrfs and Neon. After installing WINE & POL, the QtSDK 5.8.0 and converting my Qt apps from 2005-8 developments, I now have the *FIRST* machine that contains ALL the software I've ever run since I started consulting using Tubo Pascal 3.02A in the early 1980s, and many of the games and amusements. (Anyone do aerial combat with gl-117?) (I found two variables that I assigned and never used, and one if test where (flag = true) would never fail )