[Installation] Is it possible to upgrade Kubuntu using the installer from USB?

[Computer semi-expert]

I want to upgrade my system but I don't want to do it over the internet. Is it possible to burn a USB stick, run the installer, and upgrade my existing Kubuntu?

Thanks.

[claydoh]

unfortunately, no.
The installer is mainly copying an image of the OS to the drive, and there are not many actual packages on the disk, so it cannot upgrade the OS, and definitely not whatever extra software you installed afterward.

[GreyGeek]

https://danie1.me/2019/01/14/how-to-...y-for-offline/

I suspect that the technique, which was commonly used years ago, will work for Kubuntu as well.

Do you have a fast enough bandwidth to do the job? The meta data along is 2GB, which isn't much by today's standards, unless you are on a cruddy ISP that maxes out at 20Mb/s.

[jglen490]

I want to upgrade my system but I don't want to do it over the internet. Is it possible to burn a USB stick, run the installer, and upgrade my existing Kubuntu?

Thanks.

No matter how you do it, you will still be downloading data via the internet. In my opinion, it will be much more efficient to just use the built-in update process.